In the 64-row CT era, Brilliance iCT breaks through the barriers of clinical application

In the post-64-row CT era, clinical practice has put forward higher and more stringent requirements for CT technology, such as how to achieve unconditional and indiscriminate cardiac examinations? How to achieve disease screening under lower dose safety conditions? How to further achieve large-scale dynamic anatomical and functional evaluations, etc. The birth of Brilliance iCT (also known as "ultra-fast CT") provides effective weapons and tools for the above clinical challenges, and its effectiveness and repeatability have been confirmed by a large number of clinical applications in China.

The most powerful cardiac examination CT in the industry

In the 64-row CT era, the problems exposed in the use of cardiac scanning are the demanding patient screening and preparation before examination, the high dose, and the influence of the unpredictable heart rate and rhythm and calcification on the quality of cardiac images. It is worth pointing out that during the scanning process, the unpredictability of heart rate and rhythm will threaten the examination effect and image quality. How to complete data acquisition under complex cardiac physiological conditions is a difficult challenge.

Thanks to the fastest rotation speed, wider detector width and unique ECG CT data acquisition technology, Brilliance iCT has become a powerful tool for clinical coronary artery scans. It is the only CT system on the market that can perform the above-mentioned cardiac physiological state examinations unconditionally and without distinction.

During the cardiac examination, Brilliance iCT fully demonstrates its technical advantages; patients do not need to prepare before the examination, and do not need to control their heart rate, and the examination can be performed as soon as they come. The heart rate adaptation range can reach up to 180 beats/minute, and good image quality can still be achieved. In addition, the system also has a wider heart rate adaptation range, has customized response strategies for different cardiac physiological states, and realizes the natural conversion and selection of different strategies; these strategies provide clinical technical means to challenge low-dose cardiac examinations and highly complex heart rate/rhythm examinations. Brilliance iCT domestic users can all perform cardiac examinations without controlling heart rate; the entire examination process is fast and simple, and has superior inspection capabilities and efficiency compared to other products.

In addition, Brilliance iCT uses innovative 3D scattered-ray management technology to solve the headaches caused by wider detector design - severe scattered rays interfering with image quality and increased examination dose, providing clearer images, more accurate CT values, and lower examination doses. This is what makes Brilliance iCT very different from other technologies.

The industry's only large-scale dynamic multi-organ imaging CT

The emergence of triple rule-out heart disease triad diagnosis and treatment in the 64-row CT era (i.e., one scan to complete the screening of the heart, pulmonary artery and thoracic aorta) has greatly expanded the limits of CT use. However, due to the narrow detector and insufficient rack speed of the 64-row CT, it is difficult to guarantee the success rate and image quality of coronary artery examination during use, and the target scanning range is far from the expected value, so this diagnosis and treatment is difficult to be truly applied in daily clinical practice.

Brilliance iCT overcomes this clinical challenge by optimizing the combination of the fastest scanning speed and the largest spiral detection coverage in the industry, achieving the industry's first spiral coverage speed. In one examination, coronary arteries, pulmonary arteries, and a large range of aorta and its branches can be imaged, with a range of up to 100cm. Not only that, after integrating the unique ECG gating technology, Brilliance iCT can achieve dynamic presentation of human structures within the scanning range; this type of scanning that provides both anatomical structure and dynamic information provides previously unattainable diagnosis and treatment decision support. Harbin Medical University Affiliated Hospital has accumulated and analyzed a large sample size of large-scale dynamic scanning examinations. The rich clinical diagnosis and treatment information provided by this model has opened up a new application field.

Large-scale dynamic multi-organ scanning can be widely used for emergency triple rule-out heartache screening, and is also of great significance for the examination of young and elderly individuals. The complexity of congenital lesions in children and their sensitivity to dose and contrast agents can better demonstrate the superiority of Brilliance iCT; the extensiveness and diversity of lesions in elderly patients make Brilliance iCT more suitable.

The industry's lowest dose CT technology platform

The theme of RSNA 2009, “Quality accounts”, was still ringing in our ears, and the subsequent surge of media reports pushed the potential harm of radiation dose to a peak. Subsequently, European and American countries, represented by the United States, began to conduct national-level assessments of medical radiation doses.

Brilliance iCT and its latest low-dose technology were born in such an era. The realization of its low-dose design is a perfect combination of hardware system and software system (data acquisition, dose control, scan design). The new technology creates PowerB super high voltage generator - dynamic four-focus iMRC tube system - 3D Li Ke sharp spherical detector - iDOSE imaging chain; DoseWise organically integrates the hardware system, gives full play to the hardware advantages, and obtains better image quality with the lowest dose. Faster rack speed ensures that the Step&Shoot advanced scanning mode is widely adopted, free from the shackles of dose, and easily meets the implementation of low-dose cardiac screening and large-scale physical examinations.

Brilliance iCT has the fastest gantry speed and 80mm detector width, which significantly reduces the limitation of heart rate on front-gated technology (≤90 beats/min), and can routinely achieve low-dose front-gated scanning of the heart. The low-dose application results of the heart of Zhongshan People's Hospital in Guangdong Province have received attention and recognition in the international radiology field.

Brilliance iCT has been very popular with customers since its launch, and the number of installations and orders worldwide has exceeded 200. Since entering China at the end of 2008, the number of installations in China has reached 15. With further exploration of clinical applications, Brilliance iCT will show its infinite charm!