Siemens Healthineers Showcases Medical Imaging Innovations
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By HospiMedica International staff writers Posted on 30 Jan 2018 |
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Image: The SOMATOM Edge Plus (Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers).
Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) demonstrated its pioneering spirit and engineering expertise at Arab Health 2017 by showcasing its advanced products, which provide increased outcomes and reduce costs for healthcare providers.
At the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress held January 29 through February 1 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, UAE, Siemens showcased various models in its CT portfolio, which included the SOMATOM Edge Plus, SOMATOM go.All and SOMATOM go.Top. These CT scanners offer features such as personalized scanning, automated workflows, patient-centric technologies and advanced imaging. Also on display at the exhibition was the company’s SOMATOM Confidence RT Pro for radiation therapy, the nexaris therapy suite for image-guided therapy, the nexaris Angio-MR-CT therapy suite for image guided minimally invasive therapy and the nexaris Angio-CT solution dedicated to interventional radiologists.
Siemens also displayed the MAGNETOM Vida MRI scanner with unparalleled magnet and gradient power, the MAMMOMAT Revelation mammography system with the highest depth resolution and personalized soft compression, and the Mobilett Mira Max fully digital mobile X-ray machine that helps to speed up the examination workflow. The company also exhibited the Biograph Vision and Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT systems alongside the Cios Spin C-Arm Multitom Rax robotic X-ray, and the ACUSON S3000 and NX3 Series ultrasound systems.
At the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress held January 29 through February 1 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, UAE, Siemens showcased various models in its CT portfolio, which included the SOMATOM Edge Plus, SOMATOM go.All and SOMATOM go.Top. These CT scanners offer features such as personalized scanning, automated workflows, patient-centric technologies and advanced imaging. Also on display at the exhibition was the company’s SOMATOM Confidence RT Pro for radiation therapy, the nexaris therapy suite for image-guided therapy, the nexaris Angio-MR-CT therapy suite for image guided minimally invasive therapy and the nexaris Angio-CT solution dedicated to interventional radiologists.
Siemens also displayed the MAGNETOM Vida MRI scanner with unparalleled magnet and gradient power, the MAMMOMAT Revelation mammography system with the highest depth resolution and personalized soft compression, and the Mobilett Mira Max fully digital mobile X-ray machine that helps to speed up the examination workflow. The company also exhibited the Biograph Vision and Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT systems alongside the Cios Spin C-Arm Multitom Rax robotic X-ray, and the ACUSON S3000 and NX3 Series ultrasound systems.
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