Siemens now offers Inline VF (Ventricular Function) - the first fully automatic software module for cardiac function analysis with MRI worldwide. This powerful module is used to analyze cardiac image data immediately after acquisition without user interference, for the first time already during the examination. Up to now, the image data had first to be transferred to a post-processing computer for manual processing. Inline VF provides the physician with very fast access to highly reproducible results of the functional analysis.

Furthermore, Siemens has developed Argus 4D VF for the four-dimensional visualization of the cardiac function. This software enables the visualization and analysis of heart function disorders through the dynamic volume display of the beating heart. With this flexible tool, the cardiac function can be calculated from almost any combination of short-axis and long-axis images. As a new and unique feature, the mitral valve motion is included in the analysis. Thus, compared to conventional approaches, Argus 4D VF allows function analyses with significantly higher accuracy.


Artis zeego - Robot technology for medicine
The new Artis zeego angiocardiography system of Siemens introduces unprecedented flexibility in catheter labs. The industrial robot technology integrated in Artis zeego allows the physician to move the C-arm to almost any position around the patient, for example for especially steep angulations. This makes it easier to view the heart from various sides than to date. Moreover, innovative 3D procedures like syngo DynaCT Cardiac enable more precise diagnoses and more selective interventions. By using Artis zeego and syngo DynaCT Cardiac, CT-like images can be prepared and displayed in 3D in the catheter lab before, during, and after an intervention.

syngo Dynamics - the reporting, diagnosing, and archiving system with new functions for cardiology
Siemens has extended syngo Dynamics, its dynamic image reporting, diagnosing, and archiving system for multi-modality application to facilitate the workflow surrounding image management in cardiology. syngo Dynamics is used for evidence-based reporting and enhances the efficiency of clinical prodecure steps in cardiology, gynecology, and obstetrics as well as general imaging. The new syngo Dynamics version 7.0 can be connected to the IT systems of hemodynamics labs. It imports hemodynamic data and selected documentation data from GE MacLab system (version 6.5) and displays this information in reports and worksheets. As a result, the data from hemodynamic examinations is automatically available to the examining physician and needs no longer be entered manually.

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