VIENNA - Toshiba Medical Systems is showing two new additions to its Aquilion multislice CT line at this week's European Congress of Radiology. The new systems include a 16-slice scanner optimized for cardiac work and a new four-slice scanner with a faster gantry rotation speed.
Aquilion 16 CFX is based on the Japanese vendor's 16-slice Aquilion platform, with the addition of Toshiba's cardiac functional analysis package. The package, which was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in December, uses data from coronary CT angiography images to calculate ejection fractions, cardiac output, regional wall motion, and other measures of cardiac viability.
Like the general radiology version of Aquilion 16, the CFX edition features 400-millisecond gantry rotation speed and a minimum 500-ms temporal resolution. It can collect 16 0.5-mm slices per 400-ms rotation, and is also capable of performing all of the noncardiac applications found on the standard version of Aquilion 16.
Another new Aquilion variant is Aquilion 4 FX, which represents upgrades made to the four-slice Aquilion platform. It also features a faster 400-ms rotation speed, with a new 1,800-mm scannable range (the older Aquilion 4 has a 500-ms rotation speed and 1,400-mm range).
Both new systems will begin shipping in the next three to four months, according to Toshiba.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 10, 2003
Related Reading
Toshiba gets clearance for cardiac functional analysis, December 18, 2002
Toshiba installs three 16-slice CT scanners in U.S., December 10, 2002
New 16-slice scanners fuel CT’s growth surge, December 1, 2002
Toshiba adds 400-millisecond CT scanning, November 20, 2002
Toshiba’s Aquilion 16 CT scanner enters U.S. market, September 26, 2002
Copyright © 2003 AuntMinnie.com
