Efficiency in CT SOMATOM Emotion

Efficiency in CT
SOMATOM Emotion
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“With the SOMATOM
Emotion, I can cover
a wide range of clinical
applications with
outstanding
image quality.
Because of its
great performance,
I can easily do
60 high-quality
CT examinations
per day.”
Zhaolong Wei, Director,
Jinan Central Hospital,
Jinan, China
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The New SOMATOM Emotion
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Siemens – The Trendsetter in CT
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Our Philosophy – Efficiency in CT
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Experience the New Level of CT Efficiency
Finest Diagnostic Details
syngo – It’s All About You
CT Clinical Engines – Diagnostic Speed
and Confidence in CT
Profit from syngo Clinical Application Solutions
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Maximum Efficiency at Minimum Costs
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Lowest Patient Exposure
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Configuration Overview
Life – Our Customer Care Program
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With more than 4,000 systems installed
worldwide, the SOMATOM® Emotion success
story clearly demonstrates innovative
and technological leadership, customer
satisfaction, and investment protection.
And the success continues. The new
SOMATOM Emotion takes day-today clinical CT to a higher level.
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Siemens –
The Trendsetter in CT
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Efficiency in CT – this is the essence of what Siemens represents:
innovative technology for high imaging performance in compact
size that offers perfect solutions adapted to your needs as a
and cost-conscious investor.
Our new SOMATOM Emotion takes everyday CT to a higher level
and allows you to vividly experience Siemens’ cutting-edge
medical technology. Take advantage of our new CT Clinical Engines
for oncological or neuro procedures to obtain top-quality images
with minimal life-cycle costs, and reach a new level of patient care
with unparalleled dose reduction features.
SOMATOM Emotion will meet your high expectations and needs in
2-slice, 6-slice, and 16-slice configurations. It distills the essence of
Siemens’ long-years CT experience and gives the future of CT a new face.
For a physician looking for a CT scanner that is optimized for minimal
life-cycle costs, that will reliably perform routine and advanced
applications like CT Colonography, long-range vascular CT, and
ECG-gated imaging of the heart, the SOMATOM Emotion is the answer.
SOMATOM Emotion: efficiency in CT – every day.
SOMATOM Emotion –
Efficiency in CT
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Experience the New Level
of CT Efficiency
Finest Diagnostic Details
Routinely obtain finest diagnostic details and excellent
image quality with thin-slice scan protocols and collimation
as thin as 16 x 0.6 mm or 6 x 0.5 mm.
Faster Diagnosis Speed with Higher Confidence
Enhance clinical performance and substantially reduce
processing time with an intelligent combination of workflow
solutions and Siemens’ advanced CT Clinical Engines.
Maximum Efficiency at Minimum Costs
The compact size and air-cooling of the SOMATOM Emotion
results in low life-cycle costs and minimal siting
requirements of only 18.5 m2 (199 sq.ft.).
Lowest Patient Exposure
Reduce dose by up to 68 %* while maintaining optimal
image quality with Siemens’ unique CARE solutions.
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* Results may vary. Data on file.
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”It gives me the
flexibility I need
to perform routine
examinations with
high quality results
that allow me to make
fast and accurate
diagnosis.“
Dr. Johann-C. Steffens, MD, Israeli Hospital,
Hamburg, Germany
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Finest Diagnostic Details
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It’s obvious at first sight – the outstanding imaging capability of the
new SOMATOM Emotion: Sharpness and astonishing details in the
SOMATOM Emotion images give you the confidence you need for accurate
and reliable diagnoses. Excellent image quality due to collimation as thin
as 16 x 0.6 mm or 6 x 0.5 mm ensures that you will see the finest details.
To provide you with consistently high image quality, even for long scans
at any pitch, Siemens created SureView™ – a dedicated and fast spiral image
reconstruction technique. Together with the large volume coverage of up
to 16 x 1.2 mm, the SOMATOM Emotion 16-slice configuration allows you to
scan long-range vascular studies or to perform combined thorax-abdomen
examinations in a minimal amount of time.
You will quickly realize that the SOMATOM Emotion scanner is an ideal solution.
Whether you want to perform routine examinations, like chest, abdomen,
head etc., or advanced applications,
like CT-Angiography or ECG-gated
scans of the heart with a rotation
time as fast as 0.5 s, you will always
obtain the finest diagnostic details.
Available functionality depends on system configuration.
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Reinhard Loose, MD,
Director of the Diagnostic and
Interventional Radiology,
Klinikum Nuremberg North,
Nuremberg, Germany
” The
SOMATOM
Emotion is a
fantastic system
which meets
my needs in
terms of clinical
applications
and workflow
optimization.“
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syngo –
It’s All About You
syngo, our unique solution for the diagnostic
and therapeutic cycles, knows how you
work. What you need. What’s most important.
Fast, easy, and intuitive, syngo brings
together all of the solutions critical to you –
and your patients. Uniquely role-based for
your workflow, syngo completely integrates
your day, your department and beyond.
Leading to a whole new level of clinical
excellence. And a partnership you can grow
with. It’s the beginning of a virtualized,
“always on, anywhere” world of healthcare.
The time to syngo is now.
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CT Clinical Engines –
Diagnostic Speed and Confidence in CT
Our new generation of CT Clinical Engines provides you with the optimal
clinical configuration for a CT designed to simplify your clinical workflow.
Focus on delivering exceptional clinical outcomes with speed and increased
diagnostic confidence. CT Clinical Engines are a unique combination of
Siemens’ innovative CT technology and syngo solutions – intelligently integrated
into clinical solutions. They are available for oncology and neuro imaging
in order to maximize the clinical performance of your SOMATOM Emotion.
With CT Clinical Engines, you benefit from synergy across your entire clinical
workflow – with everything you need for optimal image acquisition and quality,
exceptional visualization, comprehensive evaluation, robust quantification,
and flexible reporting, all in one intuitive syngo environment.
The CT Oncology Engine provides high precision scanning – vital for highly
sensitive tumor staging – together with excellent tools for early detection,
evaluation, follow-up, and biopsy of tumors from head to toe. For time-critical
neuro exams, the CT Neuro Engine delivers the scan speed, high image quality,
and fully automated diagnostic workflow you need for stroke, intracranial
bleeding, and other brain evaluations as well as for treatment planning.
The outstanding performance of the CT Clinical Engines is driven by
syngo CT.3D – automatic image reconstruction and interactive 2D, 3D, and
4D postprocessing tools configured on a powerful syngo MultiModality
Workplace. Build on your syngo CT.3D – choose one or more CT Clinical
Engines for one or multiple workplaces, creating a syngo workplace world
that is configured to meet the demands of your clinical environment.
Diagnostic speed and confidence with CT Clinical Engines – the easy
way to answer complex clinical questions.
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syngo CT.3D offers you flexibility to configure a workplace or multiple
workplaces in addition to your syngo Acquisition Workplace. syngo CT.3D
is a unique, powerful workflow solution designed for maximum speed
and efficiency for image reconstruction, reformatting, and postprocessing.
It combines the flexible tools you need to handle high exam volumes,
large datasets, and faster scan times for interactive syngo 2D, 3D, and
4D image processing.
You can choose from two configurations of syngo CT.3D: a dedicated
CT workplace configuration or a multi-modality workplace configuration.
Whichever configuration you choose, you will benefit from state-of-the-art
syngo 3D and 4D processing tools. Everything at your fingertips – you will
have fast access to viewing, filming, MIP, MinIP, MPR, SSD, VRT modes,
4D interactive, image fusion, and bone removal tools for easy everyday use.
Both configurations can be enhanced by a selection of syngo clinical application
solutions, depending on your clinical needs.
A dedicated syngo CT Workplace configuration offers you the possibility
to maximize your postprocessing throughput, offering remote direct 3D
reconstruction – of particular benefit for departments with a high patient
throughput or where a high number of multiphase cardiac exams are
performed.
A multi-modality configuration is your gateway to the world of CT Clinical
Engines. You can configure your syngo MultiModality Workplace with
one or more CT Clinical Engines, according to your clinical needs. What’s more,
you can choose from our comprehensive portfolio of syngo clinical application
solutions for MR, molecular imaging, conventional angiography, and
radiation therapy planning. The ultimate flexibility across your entire radiology
environment.
syngo CT.3D – your gateway to a more efficient clinical workflow.
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CT Oncology Engine
The CT Oncology Engine offers you a unique combination of the most
innovative scanner and syngo solutions for diagnostic imaging, evaluation,
and follow-up in your diagnostic oncology setting. Our intuitive syngo
computer-assisted reading tools, combined with intelligent evaluation,
automated follow-up, and image guided intervention, offer you a new level
of confidence for preventive care, staging, follow-up exams, and real-time
guided biopsies. Comprehensive tumor perfusion enables a fast and easy
visualization of tumor enhancement and aids you in differentiating tumors.
Fusing images from PET or SPECT with high resolution CT images helps you
not only to better localize tumors, but also in therapy planning.
Our solutions for interventional CT extend your clinical spectrum towards
differential diagnosis and treatment, turning data into a diagnostic outcome
within minutes.
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CT Neuro Engine
The CT Neuro Engine delivers the technology required to perform artifact-free
imaging with the high spatial and temporal resolution you need for fast
and accurate visualization of complex neurological disorders of head, neck,
and spine as well as injuries and stroke.
Our unique portfolio of syngo automated software tools for neuro CT, will
help you deliver excellent diagnostic outcomes – with bone subtraction
in neuro CT DSA studies for comprehensive evaluation of complex vascular
structures, with fast brain perfusion for stroke patients, and differentiation
of brain tumors. Your diagnosis will be fast and confident, turning data into a
diagnostic outcome within minutes.
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” It really allows us to put
into a small space all the
capabilities which
we want to combine
for a very efficient,
effective, and
state-of-the-art
CT environment.“
Michael V. Knopp, MD, PhD,
Chairman and Professor of the
Ohio State University Medical Center,
Department of Radiology,
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Maximum Efficiency
at Minimum Cost
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Over the past years, our successful SOMATOM Emotion has become a synonym
for a top quality CT scanner with extremely low life-cycle costs. If you want
maximum efficiency at minimum expense, Siemens’ new SOMATOM Emotion
is your ideal solution.
One of the most time-consuming steps during a CT examination is patient
positioning. This is why we have given it a high design priority. Your patients,
your staff, and, of course, you personally, will
appreciate the excellent access and patient
positioning because of the gantry’s flared opening
and slim depth of 68 cm (26.8 in.).
With only 24 cm (9.4 in.) between the front of the
gantry and the scan plane, SOMATOM Emotion is in
a class of its own, allowing you fast and easy patient
access during interventional procedures.
A factor that significantly contributes to low siting
and life-cycle costs is the compact size and air
cooling of the SOMATOM Emotion because it easily
fits into 18.5 m2 (199 sq.ft.). In the 6- and 16-slice
versions, the system is equipped with a high
performance, long-lasting tube with innovative
liquid bearing technology. This combination makes
the new SOMATOM Emotion the best solution
for small hospitals and medical group practices –
providing high efficiency and profitability for
everyday CT.
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”Based on a 1,000 patient
study, we achieved up
to 68 % dose reduction
in comparison with fixed
mA, while ensuring
good image quality
at lower dose.“
Tom Mulkens, MD,
Heilig Hart Ziekenhuis Hospital,
Lier, Belgium
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Lowest Patient Exposure
The desire for as little radiation exposure as possible lies at the heart of our
CARE research and development philosophy. Based on this, we have developed
a wide range of dose-reduction solutions that provide exceptional image quality
at the lowest possible dose.
With the SOMATOM Emotion, saving dose starts right at the point where image
data is acquired – the Ultra Fast Ceramic (UFC™) detector. This highly efficient
detector requires the smallest possible dose to deliver exceptional image
quality. Another breathtaking example of our focus on CARE is our exclusive
CARE Dose4D™ – an unparalleled combination of maximum image quality
at minimum dose. Because every patient is unique in terms of size, weight,
and anatomy, we have developed a fully automated dose management system.
The tube current is adapted in real-time to the anatomy of each individual
patient’s organ. By using this automated dose management, your patients will
benefit from a dose reduction up to 68%*.
What’s more, you personally gain from our CARE solutions as well. With
HandCARE™, for instance, the tube’s current is automatically switched off to
avoid direct X-ray exposure to your hands during CT-guided interventions.
The combination of our CARE solutions significantly reduces dose while
providing exceptional image quality.
With SOMATOM Emotion, you reach a new level of patient care in everyday CT.
* Results may vary. Data on file.
Available functionality depends on system configuration.
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Advantage of CARE Dose4D at a
glance: only the radiation that’s really
needed is applied to your patient –
not more, not less.
Scan with
constant mA
X-ray
dose
Reduced dose
level based on
topogram
Real-time
angular dose
modulation
Slice position
X-ray
dose
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Technical specification
Collimation
Fastest rotation time
Data acquisition (slices/rotation)
Generator peak power
Reconstruction speed
Siting requirements
CT Clinical Engines and
syngo Clinical Applications
syngo CT.3D
CT Oncology Engine
CT Neuro Engine
syngo application portfolio
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Configuration Overview
SOMATOM Emotion
2-slice configuration
SOMATOM Emotion
6-slice configuration
SOMATOM Emotion
16-slice configuration
2 x 1.0 mm to 2 x 5 mm
0.8 s
2
40 kW
5 images/s
18.5 m2 (199 sq.ft.)
6 x 0.5 mm to 6 x 3 mm
0.6 s*
6
40 kW / 50 kW*
up to 8 images/s
18.5 m2 (199 sq.ft.)
16 x 0.6 mm to 16 x 1.2 mm
0.5 s*
16
50 kW
up to 16 images/s
18.5 m2 (199 sq.ft.)
yes*
no
no
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
yes*
* Optional
Available functionality depends on system configuration.
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Johann-C. Steffens, MD,
Israeli Hospital,
Hamburg, Germany
”What really pleases
me is the overall
customer care from
Siemens – not only
regarding their
products. They
care about you
as a client.
And that’s one
of many reasons
why I chose
Siemens.“
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Life –
Get the Most from Your Investment
Life is the unique customer care
solution from Siemens that helps
you get the most from your CT
investment. From the moment of
your purchase, Life surrounds you
with an array of programs and
support that enables the continuous
development of your skills,
productivity, and technology.
Allowing you to broaden your
capabilities. Increase profitability.
And take patient care to the next
level.
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Skills
Productivity
Maximizing your skills and clinical
know-how is the central key for
getting the most out of your system.
Life, our customer care solution,
helps you with a full range of
learning programs – from start up
training and application support to
clinical training. And because we
have designed Life to adapt to your
needs at all times, you can learn
online or offline, onsite or offsite –
or from our clinical partners in
workshops, fellowships, and at
symposia.
Our aim is to help you run your
system at peak performance
every day. This is why Life provides
you with a comprehensive and
individual range of assistance that
assures your system’s availability,
from safety checks and pro-active
remote services to updates and
spare parts. Additionally, Life
supplies you with analytic tools to
assess performance and utilization
data* in order to maximize uptime,
increase patient throughput, and
optimize system utilization. Because
we want to help you improve your
system’s performance.
Technology
Keeping you at the technological
and clinical cutting-edge is what
we designed Life for. So you can
easily keep on top of software and
computer hardware upgrades and
updates. Because we want you to
benefit from the latest workflow
improvements, clinical applications,
and diagnostic functions – in
addition to the most advanced
computer technology. What’s more,
we let you try out the latest, most
promising clinical developments
before you buy. And when it’s time
to upgrade, Life helps you make
an effortless transition to the new
platform.
SOMATOM LifeNet*
SOMATOM LifeNet is our unique information
and service portal. Designed to help you in
your daily work, it connects your CT scanner
console directly with Siemens via an Extranet.
This enables you to easily access information
and services immediately from your console –
including Frequently Asked Questions, learning
programs, and the possibility to download
the newest scan protocols. Additionally, as a
SOMATOM LifeNet user, you are able to receive
many of our new software applications for a
90-day trial period, free of charge, and with the
option of future purchase.
Take advantage of the many services of
SOMATOM LifeNet and profit from an easier
work routine.
Siemens Remote Service
Siemens Remote Service (SRS) offers you an
efficient and comprehensive infrastructure for
the entire spectrum of remote services for your
CT scanner. Your benefits? Services that formerly
required onsite visits are now easily available
via data transfer. And some of our remote
services guarantee maximum system availability
and continuous support in your daily work
routine.
* Powered by Siemens Remote Service.
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Proven Outcomes.
This is what Siemens is
helping to deliver right now.
Outcomes that result from truly
efficient workflow. Outcomes
that improve your bottom line.
Outcomes that lead to a level
of care that feels exceptional to
both the patient and the care
provider. Proof positive of the
value of integrating medical
technology, IT, management
consulting and services. In a way
that only Siemens can.
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