Siemens Emotion CT Scanner

high performance CT scannerdesigned  For Multislice Scanning  For a comprehensive range of clinical applications  To be a complete solution for your CT needs  Sub-Second Scanning  High Performance Spirals  World’s Slimmest Gantry Design  Multislice Technology  0.8 seconds for a full rotation  100 seconds of continuous spiral without any interruptions  User and Patient Compact Fast and Friendly Installation Economical  Premium Clinical Performance

Rapid volume scanning technique with continuous table feed
 Optimized to all anatomic and physiological needs
 Acquisition of an entire anatomical volume without interruption
 Complete anatomic region in a single breath-hold
 No misregistration of minute details between individual slices due to patient motion
 Reduced examination time in the gantry—crucial for trauma patients
 Well suited basis for reconstructions of secondary views
 · MPR    · 3D     · MIP
 Rapid continuous scanning technique without table feed
 Flow studies for differential diagnostics
 Motion studies (e.g. joints)

 High temporal resolution

 Improved detail recognition

 Spiral data

 Rotation time 0.8s 1.0s 1.5s
 Pitch 1–4
 Scan time 100s
 Scan length 153 cm (pitch 2, rot. 1.0 s) (limited by table)
 Interspiral delay min. 5s

 Spiral image reconstruction

 METRO RECON: Simultaneous reconstruction parallel to spiral acquisition

 Retrospective reconstruction of raw data

 Freely selectable position

 Freely selectable increment and number of images

 · contiguous
 · overlapping
 SureView Spiral Reconstruction

 mAs preselectable
 Effective slice width preselectable
 Pitch 1–4 (freely selectable)
 Slice broadening with pitch none
 Dose Savings of about 20% due to noise reduction over sequential images

 Single spiral—fast uninterrupted scanning of large anatomic volumes

 Multiple spirals started from any desired position with different directions—utilization of a contrast medium bolus in
 different anatomical regions Repeated acquisition of a region (scanned in same or opposite direction)— acquisition
 of different contrast medium phases of a bolus within an anatomic region  

 Real-Time Display

 Immediate image display parallel to spiral acquisition (e.g. for trauma and interventions)

 CARE Bolus [optional]

 Image Control System (ICS)
 High performance Siemens proprietary computer platform for simultaneous scanner control and post-processing functionality
 True multitasking environment achieved by combining state-of-theart HW technology (CISC architecture) with
 highly efficient SW implementation

 Patient data disk
 73 GB 13,000 images and 6,000 raw data sets of
 0.8 sec. scan

 Image Reconstruction System (IRS)
 Advanced image reconstruction computer designed to provide high processing speed and overall system reliability

 Multiple processor technology with an aggregate performance of almost 2 GHz (word length up to 128 bits) is
 employed to meet the extreme demands of medical imaging devices

 Image display

 Monitor size 21” (53 cm) Monitor 1,280 ´ 1,024 resolution
 Image display max. 1,024´1,024 matrix
 Image rate max. 10/s