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CT Clinical Imaging Solutions – Acute Care Engine

CT Acute Care Engine

Get further. With the CT Acute Care Engine.

Get further. With the CT Acute Care Engine.
Acute care cases demand a quick and comprehensive diagnosis. The 2015 Edition of the CT Acute Care Engine enhances your process efficiency with a number of automated applications – so you can concentrate on diagnosis and therapy. Benefit from increased clinical capabilities when performing triple rule-outs in acute chest pain and when assessing stroke cases, and maximize the “golden hour” with trauma patients.

Features & Benefits

What top innovation will you get?

Speed up your process efficiency in multiple trauma cases with automated rib and spine labelling.

CT Acute Care Engine – syngo.CT Bone Reading

Comprehensive diagnosis when time is tight
Multiple trauma cases with suspected injuries to the thorax and spine call for a complete evaluation of the ribs and vertebral bodies to assess possible fractures. syngo.CT Bone Reading¹ revolutionizes this process: The application identifies and labels the ribs and displays the entire rib cage rolled on a 2D planar reformat. In addition, the vertebral bodies are tagged and the spine is presented in a stretched view for a straightforward overview of the anatomy.
The Automatic Pre-Processing function performs these steps for you and has the case ready for review when opened. Lesions and fractures can now be spotted and assessed immediately.

What else is new for you?

Enhance your clinical capabilities with the CT Acute Care Engine’s intelligent features – for fast and comprehensive treatment decisions in trauma situations.

CT Acute Care Engine – syngo.CT Rapid Stent Planning

Automatically complete manufacturer-specific graft order forms
Pre-procedural planning for the treatment of abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms requires a precise assessment of several anatomical parameters. Numerous vendors offer a variety of stent grafts, each of which requires its own set of measurements.
syngo.CT Rapid Stent Planning¹ introduces the automatic completion of manufacturer-specific stent order forms. This optional extension makes the most effective use of the unique Rapid Results Technology: Protocols guide the user through all length and diameter measurements, which are then automatically stored in the corresponding order form. At delivery, syngo.CT Rapid Stent Planning provides three order forms: Gore Excluder, Zenith Flex, and Medtronic Endurant in PDF format. In addition, new order form templates can be generated to match the requirements of other vendors.²

CT Acute Care Engine – Rapid Results Technology

Standardize and automate image creation
When assessing coronary artery disease, the manual preparation of reformats and visualizations of the coronary vessels is time-consuming and rarely standardized. With Rapid Results Technology (RRT), you can automatically generate visualizations of the coronary and general vessels in a variety of types and orientations. Design your own protocols that best suit your daily work. Save time for reading other cases by allowing RRT to create just the right amount of information – standardized and reproducible. With the new edition, RRT lets you send the results of your executed protocols directly to your PACS with no extra effort.

CT Acute Care Engine – syngo.CT Neuro Perfusion

Assess dynamic CT data for the management of acute stroke patients
In acute stroke, it can be challenging to differentiate the core infarct from tissue at risk for infarction (penumbra). This is crucial, however, because the latter is potentially salvageable with additional therapy. With a range of unique features, syngo.CT Neuro Perfusion helps you easily assess the potential treatment benefits. It visualizes tissue at risk in 3D color maps based on the mismatch between blood volume and flow. You can also select individual mismatch parameters like Siemens’ Time-To-Drain. Refined algorithms offer automated gray-matter segmentation so you can immediately focus on the relevant tissues.

Technical Specifications

The CT Acute Care Engine and the CT Acute Care Engine Pro open up two different levels of diagnostic possibilities.

Hardware features in the CT Acute Care Engine

HeartView for ECG-controlled data acquisition and image reconstruction
Cardio BestPhase for automatic best systolic and diastolic phase selection
Long scan ranges for whole body CT angiography
Extended FOV for scanning of, e.g. obese patients

Software modules in the CT Acute Care Engine

syngo.CT CaScoring for quick risk assessment and coronary age calculation
syngo.CT Coronary Analysis for evaluation of coronary arteries and quantification of coronary stenosis
syngo.CT Cardiac Function for left ventricular function assessment
syngo.CT Vascular Analysis for assessment and quantification of general vascular pathologies
syngo.CT Neuro DSA for automated visualization of the cerebral vasculature
CT TAVI Planning for accurate and streamlined assessment of all parameters necessary for reliable TAVI planning
syngo.CT Neuro Perfusion for quantitative evaluation of ischemic stroke

Optional integrated Dual Energy features in the CT Acute Care Engine

syngo.CT Vascular Analysis – DE Direct Angio for precise whole-body bone-free visualizations⁵
syngo.CT DE Heart PBV for quantification of contrast agent uptake in the myocardium⁶

Additional hardware features in the CT Acute Care Engine Pro

Adaptive 4D Spiral for whole organ coverage in perfusion CT as well as phase-resolved imaging
z-UHR for ultra-high resolution bone imaging, in particular for wrists, joints, and inner ear studies

Additional software modules in the CT Acute Care Engine Pro

syngo.CT Cardiac Function – Enhancement for visualization of ischemia from early or late enhancement images
syngo.CT Cardiac Function – Right Ventricle for right ventricular functional assessment
syngo.CT Vascular Analysis – Autotracer for automatic identification and anatomical labeling of major blood vessels
syngo.CT Dynamic Angio for robust inspection of time-resolved CT images

Other optional features

syngo.CT Bone Reading for fast rib and spine assessment in multiple trauma cases
syngo.CT Myocardial Perfusion* for the evaluation of dynamic myocardial perfusion data
syngo.CT Rapid Stent Planning offers the automatic completion of manufacturer-specific stent order forms

Services & Support Education & Training

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Optional

Adobe Acrobat Professional required

syngo.CT DE Heart PBV and/or syngo VPCT Body – Myocardium required

Available for SOMATOM Definition Scanners

Requires syngo.CT DE Direct Angio

Requires syngo.CT DE Heart PBV

*CT Myocardial Perfusion is pending 510(k) clearance and is not commercially available in the U.S.