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OPTIQ

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ARTIS icono floor with OPTIQ

During a procedure, interventionalists have to see clearly – while keeping dose as low as possible. As your partner for minimally invasive interventions, we have made it our mission to further drive technology to empower you to tap your full potential. Following our tradition of innovation, we redefined the principles of automatic exposure control and rebuilt it from the ground up – resulting in our imaging solution OPTIQ. Based on big data, OPTIQ constantly adapts the relevant parameters to deliver your set image quality throughout a procedure – independent of angulation or patient size1, while also significantly reducing dose. Find out more about OPTIQ and how it supports you in expanding precision medicine.

How much dose can you save with OPTIQ?

OPTIQ explained

Understanding how OPTIQ works is simple. Think of it as an advanced navigation system that recalculates the route when you take an unexpected turn and optimizes the efficiency of your car – all automatically. At its core, OPTIQ features our proven Siemens 5-parameter exposure control, which dynamically adjusts the tube parameters – tube voltage, tube current, copper prefiltration, focal spot size, and pulse width – while also considering SID and collimation. The result? Consistent image quality at the lowest achievable dose.

Consistent image quality in three simple steps

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Image of a navigation system on the left and the control board of ARTIS icono on the right

Step 1

As a first step, you select the organ program and the image quality you want – from high to low.

Think of it as a navigation system where you enter your destination and set your preferences, such as the fastest or most energy-efficient route.

Image of a navigation system on the left and the control board of ARTIS icono on the right
Image that shows clinicians in the angio suite on the left and a highway on the right side.
Image that shows a head-up display in a car on the left and a clinician with their patient and ARTIS icono floor on the right side
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Constant image quality and excellent dose efficiency

With increasing patient attenuation, the conventional detector-dose-driven exposure control leads to a reduction of image quality – even in the average patient thickness range between 20 – 30 cm. OPTIQ uses a contrast-based technique, supported by intelligent, self-adjusting algorithms.

Compared to a conventional regulation using a constant detector-dose of 80 nGy (in this example), OPTIQ delivers constant image quality based on CNR for excellent dose efficiency – independent of patient thickness.1

    Find out what your peers say about OPTIQ

    Hendrik Janssen, MD, talks about image quality improvement with OPTIQ.

    Prof. René Chapot, MD, discusses high image quality at low dose.

    Prof. Dierk Vorwerk, MD, reflects on high image quality in obese patients.


    Structure Scout

    Optimized visibility of details and devices

    For interventional procedures, devices like guide wires, coils, and stents are indispensable. The market is constantly growing, with new devices emerging made from different materials – and each one needs to be clearly visible without an increase in dose.

    OPTIQ with Structure Scout automatically optimizes the visibility of the different devices and materials you use, based on their dose absorption properties. This material-specific imaging is based on preset values. As a result, the system automatically adapts its exposure control parameters to the material used. Compare that to a GPS that makes sure you can see all your information clearly – regardless of light or weather conditions.

    Find out how much dose you can save with Structure Scout in clinical practice2

      "Structure Scout offers us outstanding device visibility at impressively low radiation dose. This gives us great confidence even during the most challenging procedures in personalized vascular medicine and interventional oncology."3
      Prof. Thomas J. Vogl, MD
      Prof. Thomas J. Vogl, MD
      Director of the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology,University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany

      Clinical proof

      See for yourself: OPTIQ makes the difference

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      Neuro Interventions

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      Interventional Cardiology

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      Interventional Radiology

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      Clinical image that shows treatment with OPTIQ Roadmap

      Image courtesy: Prof. René Chapot, MD, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen, Germany

      OPTIQ Roadmap: Significant improvements of device contrast over vessel map

      “Impressive is the quality of the Fluoroscopy and the quality of the Roadmap. Increased image quality goes together with a reduction in doses.”3


      Prof. René Chapot, MD
      Head of the Department of Neuroradiology,
      Alfried Krupp Hospital, Essen, Germany


      Clinical image that shows treatment with OPTIQ Roadmap
      Without Scruture ScoutWithout Structure Scout
      With Structure ScoutWith Structure Scout
      Clinical image that shows stent treatment
      Clinical image that shows small vessels and tissue perfusion
      Clinical image that shows excellent visibility of tiny vessels with OPTIQ
      Clinical image that shows a TIPS procedure using a contrast-filled balloon over an iron wire without Structure ScoutWithout Structure Scout
      Clinical image that shows a TIPS procedure using a contrast-filled balloon over an iron wire with Structure ScoutWith Structure Scout
      Clinical image that shows fine structures and compensation for motion artifacts
      Clinical image that shows tiny vessels in the knee
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      OPTIQ in literature

      Siemens Healthineers OPTIQ and Structure Scout Educational Supplement 11-2023
      Interventional News: QPTIQ and Structure Scout

      Get the latest insights

      In Interventionalists’ clinical practice, constant image quality and excellent dose efficiency is significant. Several clinicians were eager to share their experiences with OPTIQ and Structure Scout in an educational supplement in Interventional News. Find out what your peers have to say.

      Further literature and information

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      Within physical limits

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      Dose reduction (based on phantom measurements) compared to conventional automatic exposure control - e.g., available with Artis Q, image quality is defined by contrast-to noise ratio

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      The results and statements by Siemens Healthineers’ customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer's unique setting. Because there is no “typical” hospital or laboratory and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, samples mix, case mix, level of IT and/or automation adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results. 
      Prof. Vogl receives financial support from Siemens Healthineers for collaborations.