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myExam guides users through diagnostic procedures, while myNeedle Companion supports targeted needle path planning and laser-guided insertion across various modalities.
The scanner is designed to enhance overall user and patient experience. The system’s power and fast rotation time can use their full potential due to the intelligence automation of myExam Companion, a Siemens Healthineers spokesperson said.
myExam Companion allows the system to achieve high-speed and high spatial resolutions, which are key for cardiac, emergency, and spectral imaging.
On the other hand, myNeedle Companion combines hardware and software designed to simplify the workflow in minimally invasive treatments and reduce complexity in CT-guided interventions.
myNeedle Companion is the first universal solution with a coordinated user interface for the planning and guidance of percutaneous needle procedures across imaging modalities.
After the workflow is trained on one modality, the training efforts on another modality are anticipated to be significantly shorter. This can help to reduce variations and minimize training efforts.
User interfaces allow the radiologist to concentrate on what matters, which is accurate needle positioning with the help of the unique myNeedle Laser. Siemens Healthineers explained that the system is useful even in advanced double angulated procedures with multiple needle paths.
CT is one of the most used imaging modalities when cross-sectional image guidance is needed for percutaneous interventional procedures, like biopsies, ablations, or pain therapy.
Over the past 20 years, the demand for CT-imaging in emergency departments has increased by 250 percent. From 2011 to 2019, CT cardiac procedures more than doubled from 1.4 to 3.0 million.
Although emergency radiology is rapidly evolving, inefficient workflows can slow down radiologists who need to triage patients and perform multiple tasks in a busy emergency environment.
But with the support of myExam Companion, staff members can easily unlock the full potential of Somatom X.ceed, speeding up procedures from patient preparation to image evaluation.
“As the number and complexity of radiological procedures increase, demands on staff are reaching heightened levels. This continues to cause unwarranted variation, in both diagnostic and interventional procedures,” Philipp Fischer, head of computed tomography at Siemens Healthineers, said in the announcement.
Somatom X.ceed, together with myNeedle Companion, is a true game changer for CT-guided interventions. After the introduction of myExam Companion last year, reducing the overall complexity of scanner operation in as many aspects as possible was our next logical step,” Fischer concluded.
Applications powered by artificial intelligence, especially CT imaging, can provide ready to read results aimed to facilitate diagnostic tasks.
Darryl Sneag, director of peripheral nerve MRO at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, explained in a press release that prior to software implementation, patients would have to sit through longer MRI sessions so radiologists could obtain higher signal-to-noise ratio in the final image.
But artificial intelligence in medical imaging can “de-noise” the raw digital data produced during the scan and deliver a clearer signal to the image reconstruction process. Additionally, the technology can help produce images in a shorter amount of time.
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