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GE HealthCare showcases Aurora, a new dual head SPECT/CT, and Clarify DL at RSNA 2024
Advanced SPECT/CT solutions combine functional imaging from SPECT with anatomical details from CT, offering clinicians a comprehensive view of both the physiological and structural aspects of diseases.
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At the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2024 Annual Meeting, GE HealthCare unveiled Aurora, a new dual-head SPECT/CT designed to help clinicians see and do more, aiming to help expand the range of CT procedures typically available in hybrid systems and provide support for conditions, such as cancer and cardiac disorders, which rely on early detection and precise localization of abnormalities 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 capture gamma rays emitted by radioactive tracers. These captured events are then turned into data that 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 allow advanced CT capabilities beyond routine imaging typically available in hybrid systems. 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.
GE HealthCare designed Aurora to unlock the potential of digital solutions, providing new opportunities to help clinicians solve operational and diagnostic challenges, as well as develop personalized approaches for better patient outcomes. These enhancements include:
- 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; and
- SmartMar for excellent artifact-less imaging, enabling the reduction of 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 help make exams smooth and comfortable for patients.
Leveraging AI for exceptional image quality in nuclear medicine
Also, a part of GE HealthCare’s nuclear medicine portfolio, Clarify DL represents a new 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.
The result is an AI-powered solution designed to deliver clear, accurate, and effortless imaging – a stark contrast to today’s noise reduction techniques, which typically reduce noise at the expense of contrast and resolution and may impact accuracy and diagnostic confidence.
Also, a part of GE HealthCare’s nuclear medicine portfolio, Clarify DL represents a new 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.
The result is an AI-powered solution designed to deliver clear, accurate, and effortless imaging – a stark contrast to today’s noise reduction techniques, which typically reduce noise at the expense of contrast and resolution and may impact accuracy and diagnostic confidence.
