Siemens Healthineers has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Somatom Edge Plus premium single-source CT scanner.
Edge Plus has tin filters, a Straton MX Sigma tube with a high mA range, Stellar Infinity detectors, and twin-beam dual-energy scanning. The device also includes Siemens' Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies (FAST) 3D camera, which uses artificial intelligence to facilitate patient positioning, as well as its FAST integrated workflow.
Siemens featured Somatom Edge Plus at RSNA 2017.
