When stroke strikes, 
be ahead of your time.

To confirm ischemic stroke, detect the location of the vessel occlusion, and evaluate the brain damage, you need to rely on excellent diagnostic imaging. CT or MR imaging is considered the gold standard per international stroke guidelines. Our dedicated CT and MRI stroke protocols provide the relevant information on the severity of the damage so you can make confident diagnostic decisions fast.

• Uncompromised image quality throughout the CT scanner portfolio – with optimized signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios for excellent gray-white matter differentiation and contrast enhancement
• Standardized scanning and post-processing workflow – as well as fully automated or semi-automated perfusion post-processing – to enhance precision medicine
• Fast scan, analysis, and decision support for endovascular mechanical thrombectomy planning, ongoing triage, and treatment pathway: Every second counts in stroke, because time is brain

Reducing door-to-groin time for stroke patients at your institution is critical. Optimize clinical processes and perform CT diagnostics and angio stroke treatment in the same room. In our Nexaris Angio-CT suite¹⁾, patients can even stay on the same table for diagnostics and treatment – translating into time savings and enhanced safety. In a two-room set-up, you can even use the systems independently. 

Nexaris Angio-CT suite: A smart combination of an ARTIS icono biplane and a CT scanner in one room. Speed up diagnostics and interventional stroke treatment by eliminating time spent on transporting and transferring patients.

• Share one table for diagnostics and treatment, making patient transfer unnecessary 
• Potential cost savings thanks to reduced workflow time 
•  High‐end care for centers of excellence

Stroke patients need medical help extremely fast. Unfortunately, CT- and MRI-based workflows cost valuable time.¹⁾ In an angio-only approach, you may save valuable time by combining pre-procedural imaging and treatment on the same angio system.¹⁾ 

• Our ARTIS icono supports you with fast and precise cone beam CT imaging – right in your angio lab.
• In a stroke emergency setting the door-to-groin time can be shortened by 34 minutes by using syngo DynaCT and the angio only approach.^2);3) 
• Visualize suspicious intracranial bleedings with syngo DynaCT Sine Spin 
• With syngo DynaCT Multiphase it is possible for the first time to visualize cerebral collateral vessels with time-resolved syngo DynaCT, depicting 10 different time points within a period of 60 seconds

One important element in the care of hospitalized stroke patients is follow-up CT imaging. This becomes a time-intensive process if the patient is lying in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to her or his severe condition. Under these circumstances you want your staff to be able to perform diagnostics quickly and make treatment decisions right away and with confidence. Our mobile head CT scanner SOMATOM On.site provides access to consistent and reliable SOMATOM image quality, right at your patient’s bedside. 

• Perform in-room scanning with this completely self-shielded CT scanner. This allows staff to stay next to the patient during the examination, and other patients can also remain in the room. 
• Reduce patient transports for CT imaging throughout the hospital. This has numerous benefits, from less potential for clinical complications during patient transport to decreased risk of hospital-acquired infections. 
• Optimize staff deployment by letting ICU staff stay in their ward and continue to care for ICU patients. With our mobile CT scanner, there is no need for them to accompany patient transports for head CT examinations. 
• Achieve high image quality at the point of care and rely on SOMATOM components like Stellar detector and SAFIRE iterative reconstruction.

Ultrasound Methods are useful in Stroke prevention in many ways, can also be used to assess plaque vulnerability, by detecting echolucency, ulceration and plaque heterogenicity on assessment of plaque texture.

• Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Many ultrasound systems can perform Transcranial Doppler (TCD) examination. TCD can be utilized in the field to diagnose many ischemic strokes. Traditional TCD exams are time intensive, performed by a specialist to look at the entire vasculature of the brain through multiple windows.
• The use of Carotid Ultrasound in the Coronary Artery Disease Screening results in a high prevalence of coronary artery disease and high probabilities of coronary angiography and revascularization, and thus it is a useful and feasible strategy for the screening of asymptomatic patients. 
• Transcranial ultrasound may broaden the abilities of stroke neurologists to rapidly evaluate by assessing hemodynamic changes and reperfusion in stroke patients.
  
  Our ACUSON Ultrasound offers the technology you need for confident stroke assessment.