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GE HEALTHCARE INTRODUCES AURORA AT #EANM24
Aurora is a new SPECT/CT that harnesses the power of AI and advanced CT capabilities to help expand the range of procedures available for patients.
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At the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) 2024 Congress, GE HealthCare unveiled Aurora, a new dual-head SPECT/CT with AI-powered technologies. The system is designed to help clinicians see and do more, aiming to help expand the range of procedures available for cardiac patients and provide support for conditions such as cancer and neurological disorders – all of which rely on early detection and precise localization of abnormalities are key for effective intervention.
As healthcare continues to shift toward precision medicine and personalized care, clinicians require more advanced SPECT/CT solutions. These nuclear medicine systems combine functional imaging from single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with anatomical details from computed tomography (CT), offering clinicians a comprehensive view of both the physiological and structural aspects of diseases.
Aurora is designed to optimize both SPECT and CT technologies to capture gamma rays emitted by radioactive tracers. These findings are then turned into data which help create images showing the distribution of the tracer and enabling diagnoses across various care areas.
It also features GE HealthCare’s Revolution Ascend CT technology, offering additional design solutions to enable advanced capabilities that extend beyond routine imaging. This includes 40mm CT detector coverage – twice that of other hybrid systems – with a 75 cm-wide CT bore to help enhance patient comfort while facilitating high-speed scanning (0.35-second rotation speed) and offering up to 128 slices for advanced procedures like coronary CT angiography.
To help customers more easily process the vast amounts of data produced, GE HealthCare designed Aurora to unlock the full potential of digital and AI, offering new opportunities to help clinicians solve operational and diagnostic challenges as well as develop personalized approaches for better patient outcomes. These enhancements include:
- Clarify DL deep learning image reconstruction, which is designed to enhance bone SPECT image quality performance, an important factor in increasing diagnostic confidence – in a clinical evaluation, Clarify DL's image resolution was rated as better in 98% of the exams;
- ASiR-V for lower dose (up to 82% relative to FBP), reduced noise levels up to 91% and improved spatial resolution at the same image noise;
- SnapShot Freeze 2 for improvement in motion blur reduction while maintaining high spatial resolution for whole heart motion correction;
- SwiftScan SPECT, which enables up to a 25% reduction in scan time or injected dose while maintaining lesion detectability;
- Evolution, Aurora’s resolution recovery algorithm designed to overcome conventional imaging trade-offs by modelling the collimator/detector response – enables up to a 50% reduction in scan time or injected dose; and
- SmartMar for excellent artifact-less imaging, which enables a reduction photon starvation, beam hardening, and streak artifacts caused by metal in the body.
Finally, Aurora is equipped with Effortless Workflow, which offers a set of efficiency solutions – including Auto Prescription and Smart Plan – enhanced by digital automation and design innovations to help ease technologists' intervention and intervention and help make exams smooth and comfortable for patients.
Aurora attains exceptional levels of image quality and scan time with GE HealthCare's exclusive technologies Clarify DL and SwiftScan. Improvements in image quality can help reinforce diagnostic confidence.
“Aurora is the machine we were waiting for,” says Bruno Vanderlinden, Radiation Physicist, Brussels University Hospital. “We can program the machine to run all the tests we do in nuclear medicine. It really is the Swiss army knife of imaging machines in nuclear medicine. We were able to set up acquisitions for 2-D, 3-D, and dynamic imaging, with high-quality CT scans and a significant reduction in radiation dose.”
Aurora attains exceptional levels of image quality and scan time with GE HealthCare's exclusive technologies Clarify DL and SwiftScan. Improvements in image quality can help reinforce diagnostic confidence.
“Aurora is the machine we were waiting for,” says Bruno Vanderlinden, Radiation Physicist, Brussels University Hospital. “We can program the machine to run all the tests we do in nuclear medicine. It really is the Swiss army knife of imaging machines in nuclear medicine. We were able to set up acquisitions for 2-D, 3-D, and dynamic imaging, with high-quality CT scans and a significant reduction in radiation dose.”
Click here for more information on Aurora and its digital and AI solutions.
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