Toshiba Medical offers enhancements to Aquillion™ ONE/GENESIS edition CT

Toshiba America Medical Systems, a Canon Group company, now offers Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) to its Aquillion™ ONE/GENESIS edition computed tomography system (CT). This function improves low-contrast detectability and high-contrast spatial resolution with Toshiba Medical's FIRST MBIR, as well as workflow and efficiency tools.

New clinical, operational and safety enhancements include:

• Quick Whole Body Scanning: The three-phase Variable Helical Pitch (vHP3)* helps clinicians assess the whole body with just one scan. vHP3 allows for scanning three different parameters and helical pitch setting within distinct anatomical areas, in a single breath, with one contrast injection, improving image quality and workflow while potentially reducing intravenous contrast and radiation dose.
• Neuro FIRST MBIR improves high-contrast spatial resolution and low contrast detectability in the brain, which may help to improve visualization of early signs of stroke.
• Fast Scans with Automated Table Positioning: ^SUREPosition accurately centers the patient within the gantry without clinicians having to physically adjust the patient or repeat a scanogram.>

The Aquilion ONE / GENESIS Edition offers dynamic volume CT imaging ideal for trauma and life-threatening conditions like heart disease and stroke, according to Toshiba. The system also features an optimized beam spectrum based on ^PUREViSION Optics, combined with ^PUREViSION Detector and FIRST (MBIR) reconstruction, offering superior image detail and resolution and up to 82.4 percent** dose reduction. Additionally, the system features ^SURESubtraction iodine mapping for routine exams, such as liver or oncology exams.