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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | April 04, 2022
From the April 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Soteria.AI goes beyond filtering to block the X-ray beam completely, providing radiation protection during interventional procedures,” said Dan Alred, marketing manager at Omega Medical Imaging.
“Every day, patients and staff are at risk from radiation exposure during fluoro and cine procedures,” Alred said. “Soteria.AI is something never seen before. It’s revolutionary in its performance, image quality, and radiation safety.”
The floor-mounted C-arm design of the Soteria.AI provides positioning capability normally found in ceiling-mounted systems, but with minimal down time and a lower cost of installation, Alred said.
“It also saves a facility quite a bit of money and lost revenue, because a ceiling-mounted system takes, at a minimum, six months to install, whereas this new floor-mounted system can be installed in two weeks,” Alred said.
Omega also released new software for its E-View.AI system for interventional endoscopy with a specialized quantitative measurement tool for advanced endoscopy. In bile duct stone removal cases, for example, the software measures the endoscope as a reference and then the largest stone is measured to compare to the width of the bile duct to determine the best procedure plan.
“Before, a physician had to assess the fluoro image and make a determination of how best to proceed during a case,” Alred said. “Now, they can measure everything precisely and it makes the stone extraction much simpler and more efficient.”
Parker Medical
At last year's RSNA, Parker Medical showcased its line of C-arm high-voltage cable harnesses, interconnect cables, power cords and X-ray tube shields.
Parker Medical has developed a new ergo high-voltage cable harness for motorized 3D-imaging C-arms. It allows for increased C-arm maneuverability and improved C-arm rotation positioning to view challenging areas, said Christine Holland, vice president of business development for Parker.
“The HV cable harness is critical to C-arm operation, supplying power to the X-ray tube and interconnecting all the associated C-arm components,” Holland said. “Parker’s HV cable harness technology serves to support C-arms performing procedures for critical ER care, to vascular, orthopedic, pain management and more.”
The cable harnesses are high-voltage tested to 125 kV and undergo other interconnect tests to ensure they are ready to perform reliably upon installation at the factory or site, Holland said.
Parker offers other products for C-arm equipment, including X-ray tube shields made of high-density plastic to reduce radiation scatter, protect patients and staff and to replace the need for lead shielding at the X-ray source.
