Philips Medical Systems

(Booth 4129) This year, Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA, will unveil innovations in tube and detector technology, as well as image reconstruction advances, on the company's Brilliance 64-channel CT scanner.

Philips reports that the company's future product development direction is focused on the delivery of a single-tube scanner capable of covering an entire organ in a single rotation. The company will also tout a "futures" area of its booth, where it will display information generated from ongoing clinical investigations with the company's multidetector-row spectral CT scanners, with research partners having already completed more than 750 exams.

Sensitive to radiation dose concerns, Philips will show its Step & Shoot cardiac technique, first demonstrated at the 2006 RSNA meeting, as well as dose reduction capabilities in virtual colonoscopy.

Workflow issues are addressed by Brilliance Everywhere, a thin-client workstation that provides advanced applications to distributed PCs, including various workstations or even a connected PC at home. This approach provides the capability of fully sharing image files, according to the company.

Recognizing the dramatic impact that reimbursement issues have meant to the imaging industry, Philips will also showcase value-oriented configurations of its six-, 16-, and 64-slice scanners.