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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | October 24, 2022
From the October 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The system includes Philips’ Tube for Life Guarantee, which ensures the X-ray tube for the life of the system to help minimize lifetime operating costs and provide reliability to help ensure efficient operation.
Siemens Healthineers
Last fall, Siemens Healthineers received FDA clearance for its NAEOTOM Alpha photon-counting CT, one of the first major advances in the CT space in years.
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“The technology has the capability of achieving a much higher spatial resolution than was possible before without substantial dose penalty,” said Matthew Fuld, photon-counting CT product manager for Siemens Healthineers.
The NAEOTOM Alpha is positioned at the high end of the Siemens Healthineers portfolio and the dual-source temporal resolution will be an advantage for cardiovascular applications, pulmonary applications and pediatric imaging, where motion is a factor.
“With children, you always want to scan fast,” Fuld said. “You always need higher resolution, and you need to be as gentle as possible in terms of radiation and contrast dose.”
Large academic centers have been the primary customers for the NAEOTOM Alpha, but Fuld believes it will eventually be adopted by smaller facilities.
“Even in our traditional dual-source market, a market that used to be predominantly that same group of high-end academic institutions, we are now seeing these tools expand out much further into regional hospitals,” Fuld said. “We really see this as one of the pivotal moments in CT.”
United Imaging
United Imaging recently launched the uCT 550 Advance program, which provides customers with a brand new CT scanner in two weeks or less from the date of an order.
“This program is for customers who have older CT equipment that may no longer be cost effective to fix, or who have an acute need for a CT replacement quickly to minimize downtime,” said Jeffrey Bundy, chief executive officer of United Imaging Healthcare Solutions. “It’s also for customers who want to upgrade their scanner to expand clinical capabilities, have more reliable equipment and cap their costs, but also need it quickly to stay up and running as much as possible.”
The uCT 550 Advance is delivered as a fully configured 80-slice CT, with routine maintenance and parts and the company’s Software Upgrades for Life program included.
“Yes, we really deliver it in two weeks,” Bundy said. “These kinds of commitments are possible because we are such a highly vertically integrated company and have maximized flexibility and control over our supply chain, to a degree that is not typical in this industry.”
