Are you looking for a CT scanner that helps provide better care and safer imaging in a compact, affordable package? The Aquilion Lightning™ / SP package delivers just that.
The system is designed to operate reliably and efficiently, producing high-quality images that help speed up diagnosis and treatment in a busy environment.
HIGH PERFORMANCE, HIGHLY ECONOMICAL
The Aquilion Lightning / SP Package employs cutting-edge technology to optimize patient care and to accelerate clinical decision-making. Innovative features ensure that you can acquire high-quality images routinely at very low patient dose.
The system’s 80 row PUREViSION detector with industry-leading 0.5 mm element size delivers razor-sharp, fully isotropic images in all planes. By making more efficient use of X-rays, the innovative PUREViSION detector allows you to minimize patient dose while improving image quality.
Shifting from 64 to 80 detector rows with up to 160 slices with the Aquilion Lightning / SP package results in shorter scan times with reduced iodine volumes, less motion artifacts and higher quality imaging.
Being able to change imaging parameters and table speed within the same exam saves time, dose and cost. Combining up to three protocols into one single scan helps you making excellent use of contrast media while reducing patient dose and motion artifacts.
Aquilion Lightning / SP Package has been thoughtfully engineered to meet today‘s economic challenges. With a gantry design focusing on smaller installation space and lower energy consumption, Aquilion Lightning /SP Package provides you more space to work in.
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY AND PATIENT SAFETY
Aquilion Lightning / SP package incorporates the latest hardware, software and reconstruction technologies allowing you to keep pace with your busy workload while maintaining the best image quality.
The system provides streamlined workflow from patient setup to diagnosis. A fast and efficient examination with automated minimal dose selection ensures both optimal imaging results and patient experience.
- Dose check
Aquilion Lightning / SP package helps ensure that the radiation dose limit you defined cannot be exceeded to avoid unintended high dose levels.
- Real-time imaging
The system provides real-time imaging during the scan allowing you to monitor the result instantaneously – a valuable tool for saving scan time and radiation dose.
- Automated kV selection
To further save iodine volume, SUREkV automatically uses the lowest kV setting for CTA examinations.
- Fast reconstruction**
With a reconstruction speed of up to 50 images per second** at full resolution rapid diagnosis and high patient throughput are facilitated.
*AIDR 3D Enhanced = Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D,
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The Aquilion Lightning / SP Package gantry features design innovations improving the scan experience for patients while providing excellent operability and work safety for the technician.
The i-Station display provides child-friendly exam instructions and gives operators feedback for breath-holding, ECG, scan parameters and patient ID.
The spacious 780 mm wide bore and 470 mm wide patient couch ensure comfortable scanning for even the largest of patients.
The couch top can be lowered to a minimum height of 312 mm for facilitating patient loading and transfer from a wheelchair or bed.
Tech Assist Lateral Slide** ensures safety and comfort by providing motorized positioning of the patient, reducing the risk of injury to the patient and the technologist.
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Aquilion Lightning / SP package is designed to handle even the busiest workloads with ease. The system’s intuitive user interface guides you step by step through the examination with modern and easy-to-understand graphics and animations. A host of intelligent functions enable a fast and efficient workflow.
The system’s optimized low-dose performance helps you minimizing patient dose while allowing you to perform more exams in less time.
Aquilion Lightning / SP Package allows for automated kV selection based on a patient’s size and the clinical task selected. As part of Toshiba Medical’s SUREExposure technology, this function can help optimizing the use of iodine contrast, decreasing cost and patient risk.
Fully automated algorithms such a SURESubtraction* and Dual Energy* allows you to diagnose with outstanding ease of use. The zero-click algorithms provide superior IQ without manual interference and/or post-processing. This will save valuable time and generates the same result in all your patients.
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MAXIMUM CLINICAL CAPABILITIES
Aquilion Lightning / SP package offers a comprehensive suite of Adaptive Diagnostic solutions to make complex exams easier and to improve diagnostic precision and reproducibility.
Toshiba Medical‘s SEMAR utilizes a sophisticated reconstruction technique to remove artifacts caused by metal and improves visualization of the implant, supporting bone, and adjacent soft tissues for clearer and more confident diagnosis.
Superior visualization in CTA with true subtraction of bone and calcification.
Clearly defined perfusion with color blood flow maps as a result of advanced registration and subtraction.
Provides a more accurate body outline for off-center imaging, very obese patients or radiotherapy planning.
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Superb brain image quality with clear grey-white matter differentiation and significantly reduced artifacts.
CBP for evaluation of patients with cerebrovascular disease. **
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Fast and low-dose scanning of the chest allowing for superb image quality even in the most challenging patients.
Eliminate metal artifacts in all your patients independent of the scan acquisition using SEMAR.
Reduce the amount of iodine with routine low kV scanning.
Eliminate metal artifacts without an increase in dose with SEMAR.
Excellent visualization of bony structures thanks to the PUREViSION detector.
Outstanding image quality and fast reconstruction with fully iterative reconstruction; AIDR 3D.
