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The NAEOTOM Alpha classUnstoppable

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Patient-centered innovation

Siemens Healthineers has made an unstoppable commitment to transform medical imaging with the NAEOTOM Alpha class, featuring three photon-counting CT systems. These systems enhance diagnostic results and processes across various clinical scenarios using proven Quantum Technology and AI-powered productivity solutions. Address the limitations of conventional CT and set a new standard of care with the NAEOTOM Alpha class.

An unstoppable shift – Expert insights on the new era of imaging

Clinical experts share the opinion that the NAEOTOM Alpha class is redefining diagnostics: merging speed, precision, and intelligence to transform workflows, empower radiologists, and accelerate the shift from reactive treatment to truly preventive, personalized care. A new era of imaging is beginning – as told by those at the forefront of imaging.

Innovating imaging:

How a new workflow unlocks opportunity
Discover how smarter workflows and automation in image acquisition and processing can transform diagnostic imaging – boosting efficiency, saving time, and helping radiologists manage the growing volume of cases with precision and speed.

Precision pays off:

How confident diagnoses drive efficiency
Clinicians share how the NAEOTOM Alpha class can support them in early, accurate diagnoses, supporting the evaluation of calcifications or stents diagnostically – showing that better imaging can not only impact patient pathways, but also lower costs. 

Shaping the future of healthcare:

How photon-counting CT drives precision medicine
The NAEOTOM Alpha class is revolutionizing personalized medicine – enabling early disease detection, guiding tailored treatment, and supporting to move healthcare systems from reactive care to proactive prevention.

Speed meets certainty:

How reliable imaging impacts clinical routine
The NAEOTOM Alpha class empowers clinical routine with sharp images, fast scans, and reduced dose – streamlining workflow, enhancing diagnostic confidence and supporting informed decisions easier, which is especially relevant in emergency and cardiac imaging.

Visualization of a clinical image with Quantum HD resolution and a clinical image with Quantum Spectral Information as a symbol for profound clinical impact.

Profound clinical impact

If you can’t see it, you can’t diagnose it. If you can’t diagnose it, you can’t treat it. The NAEOTOM Alpha class delivers precise anatomical details with Quantum HD resolution with up to 0.2 mm, and Quantum Spectral imaging in every scan enables precise functional evaluation. Address limitations of conventional CT and experience the profound clinical impact of photon-counting CT.

A clinical image with Quantum HD resolution showing fine structures and small anatomical details.
Courtesy of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

See the unseen with Quantum HD

Enabled by the up to 0.2 mm slice thickness of Quantum HD, the visualization of small anatomical details that cannot be seen with conventional CT technology delivers conclusive insights. These support clinical decision making, with the potential to streamline patient pathways. Quantum HD images offer optimized results without a dose increase. It also supports clinicians in evaluating stent patency, detection and diagnostic characterization of tumors, confident analysis of resectability, and identification of small abnormalities.

A clinical image with highly-detailed Quantum Spectral Imaging maps that enable functional evaluation.
Courtesy of University Hospital Center of Lille, Lille, France

Be conclusive in every scan with Quantum Spectral Imaging

Quantum Spectral Imaging delivers detailed spectral maps in every scan—enabling functional evaluation with high precision and conclusiveness even in patients previously excluded from CT, such as patients who cannot hold their breath or have a high calcium load. No scan mode preselection, or compromises between speed, coverage, and spectral information. The scanners support cardiovascular risk stratification: Studies have reported on the use of Quantum Spectral Imaging to maximize diagnostic information in thoracic imaging.1

Illustration with symbols for artificial intelligence solutions as an efficiency driver in patient positioning, scanning, result creation and reading with the NAEOTOM Alpha class scanners.

AI-powered productivity

Staff shortages, more patients, and manual processes complicate healthcare delivery. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), workflows with smart technologies—from patient positioning to scanning, result creation and reading—automate processes, save time, and add efficiency.

Illustration with symbols for patient preparation, image acquisition, image reconstruction, evaluation and post-processing next to a NAEOTOM Alpha class scanner. The intuitive design of these procedures can lead to up to 91% fewer clicks.


Accelerate scanning workflows with AI-powered myExam Companion

Integrated into all NAEOTOM Alpha class scanners, myExam Companion can accelerate scanning workflows, providing time savings with simplified steps that reduce the burden on staff. It makes it easy to set up clinical workflows, can reduce inter-operator variability, and saves time. For example, streamlining oncology procedures with myExam Companion can result in 74%-time savings and 87% fewer clicks for abdomen acquisitions, and 82%-time savings and 91% fewer clicks for brain acquisitions.2

Illustration with symbols for artificial intelligence solutions as an enabler for up to 74% faster workflows.

Streamline reading with Quantum Technology

In combination with AI-powered, clinical advanced visualization tools, the unique Quantum Technology in the NAEOTOM Alpha class can help simplify and automate imaging processes, enhance reading productivity, and optimize workflows for radiologists. Included in the wide-range of digital tools and applications are training and smart simulators that prepare the users for real-world scenarios.

Unstoppable in clinical practice

Transforming patient pathways

New patient populations may benefit from the advanced imaging capabilities of Quantum Technology.

Assessing challenging cardiac patients

Precise quantification on coronary calcifications can help to plan procedures in the cath lab.

Optimizing use of contrast

Find out in this video how photon-counting detectors with cadmium-telluride crystals can reduce contrast agent volume by about fifty percent.

"This technology will provide, and is already providing, the possibility to have the highest diagnostic sensitivity and, at the same time, the highest diagnostic specificity. That means I'm capable of detecting the smallest thing and I'm capable of telling you what it is (…)." 3
Filippo Cardemartiri, MD, PhD
Director Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, SDN IRCCS, Naples, Italy

The NAEOTOM Alpha class in clinical routine

 

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Results from case studies are not predictive of results in other cases. Results in other cases may vary. Study source: Testing bay environment study, Forchheim, Germany
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The statements by customers of Siemens Healthineers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer's unique setting. Since there is no "typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.
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