The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new portfolio of CT scanners developed by GE Healthcare for use in performing radiation therapy (RT) simulation procedures.
The new scanners are wide-bore models and include the Discovery CT590 RT and Optima CT580 RT. Discovery CT590 RT features an automated 4D video organ motion recording feature that captures organ movement to better adapt future radiation therapy treatments.
The new RT scanners are also available for interventional and bariatric CT procedures, and Discovery CT590 RT includes GE's adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) dose-reduction protocol.
The new units were launched at last week's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) and Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) joint meeting in Vancouver.
