New Orleans, LA - Royal Philips Electronics has announced the release of the new Philips BrightView XCT, designed specifically to meet the needs of nuclear medicine.

The BrightView XCT integrates Philips BrightView SPECT in a co-planar design with advanced flat-detector X-ray CT technology to acquire low dose, high resolution CT images and to improve registration confidence. The system will ship in the first quarter 2009.

This is the first time a flat panel X-ray detector will be used for CT imaging in nuclear medicine. This system, along with the new GEMINI TF Big Bore and new NM Application Portfolio on the Extended Brilliance Workspace, was on display at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting this week.
"Philips is devoting substantial resources toward expanding its nuclear medicine portfolio to meet the needs of our customers," said Jay Mazelsky, senior vice president, Nuclear Medicine, for Philips Healthcare. "At SNM 2008, we added to our history of clinical innovation with several new products, demonstrating how Philips is combining design, technology and intelligence in ways specifically designed to help our customers do more for their patients in general nuclear medicine studies and throughout the cycle of care in oncology and cardiology."

The BrightView XCT features technological advances that can enable low patient dose levels, high-resolution localization and high-quality attenuation correction with the potential for fewer artifacts and shorter exam times. This offers clinical advantages particularly in cardiology studies, the top procedure in nuclear medicine.

In addition, the co-planar SPECT and CT capabilities limit, and in some cases eliminate, the need to move the table between scans. Reduced movement can help improve patient comfort and allow for more confidence in image registration, the process of comparing, matching and superimposing the SPECT and CT images on one another for analysis.

"The BrightView XCT is very helpful in the interpretation of nuclear medicine images by providing high quality localization and attenuation correction," said Dr. Richard Myers, chairman of the Nuclear Medicine Division at Radiological Association of Sacramento. "The quality of the SPECT images is noticeably improved with the addition of attenuation and scatter correction."

At SNM 2008, Philips also introduced a comprehensive portfolio of nuclear medicine applications on the powerful Extended Brilliance Workspace (EBW). The Nuclear Medicine Application Portfolio provides a common analysis and viewing environment for SPECT, PET and CT, as well as a comprehensive support for hybrid imaging workflow.

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