Aquilion Prime incorporates cutting-edge technologies designed to meet your current and future clinical needs. With technologies initially developed for Aquilion ONE high quality imaging at lowest dose is assured while latest clinical applications can be explored.
Canon redefines the standard of detector efficiency lowering patient dose by up to 40%.
Bone free contrast enhanced imaging, iodine mapping or metal artifact reduction, Canon makes diagnosis easy.
Canon implemented iterative dose reduction seamlessly into the workflow for optimal and automatic dose.
Tech Assist Lateral Slide is a revolutionary way to positioning your patient single handed and without any physical strain.
Latest addition to the Adaptive Diagnostic suite of technologies. A sophisticated algorithm is used to virtually eliminate metal artifacts.
Minimization of the radiation dose is a high priority for all medical imaging practitioners. The dose has to be adjusted appropriately according to the size and shape of each patient. Automatic exposure control systems have proven to be useful in doing this while maintaining diagnostic image quality.
Canon’s SUREExposure 3D Adaptive exposure control system is fully integrated into the imaging chain and can therefore calculate the minimum radiation exposure required for each examination of each patient. With the inclusion of AIDR 3D (Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction 3D) in the scan protocol, the exposure dose is automatically reduced by up to 75% relative to a scan reconstructed with filtered back projection.
AIDR 3D is the latest evolution of iterative reconstruction technology and has been fully integrated into the imaging chain to ensure automatic dose reduction for all your CT examinations. For a dose reduction technology to be truly useful in clinical practice, it must be fast enough to fit into busy workflow schedules. AIDR 3D reconstruction has therefore been systematically optimized to guarantee maximum patient throughput. As a result, advanced iterative reconstruction with AIDR 3D can be used for every patient and every scan.
Aquilion Prime incorporates a variety of advanced technologies into a new-generation platform to ensure high quality images while minimizing the exposure dose.
The active collimator eliminates X-rays that are not used for image reconstruction in helical scanning. The collimator operates automatically at the start and end of scan range limiting the extent of the X-ray beam, permitting further dose reduction. With active collimation the exposure can be reduced by up to 20%.
Aquilion Prime performs coronary angiography using a prospectively triggered helical technique. This ensures uniformity in the Z-axis compared to step-and-shoot techniques. SURECardio Prospective includes Canon’s proprietary arrhythmia rejection software which recognizes irregular heart rhythm and controls scan exposure accordingly to ensure a diagnostic study every time, and so minimize repeat examinations.
SUREExposure 3D is a function that continuously modulates the exposure dose in the X, Y, and Z directions according to the patient’s body shape. Using dose modulation the exposure can be reduced by up to 40%.
Variable Helical Pitch (vHP) allows definition of an exam that automatically changes the helical pitch at a user-defined location during acquisition without stopping the table motion. For example, in a CTA aorta examination, ECG-gated scanning with a slow pitch is performed for the thoracic, seamlessly switching to non-gated scanning with a faster pitch for the abdominal aorta. vHP provides an optimized workflow and short scan times when performing combined studies while significantly reducing contrast and radiation dose.
Developed for Aquilion ONE dynamic volume CT, new proprietary algorithms using the coneXact technology are available for Aquilion Prime.
Taking full advantage of the coneXact technology, acquired volume data can be reconstructed in double density, resulting in a more true-to-original reconstruction in MPR and 3D rendered images.
Canon’s Shuttle Helical features a unique combination of helical and volume acquisition techniques. This unique combination eliminates the need for over-ranging associated with conventional helical shuttle techniques. This results in faster cycle times and reduced patient dose.
Save time and storage space with Canon’s hybrid reconstruction kernels. These newly introduced iterative reconstruction algorithms provide sharp lungs and excellent soft tissue resolution in the one image. Reading times are shortened as you only need to concentrate on a single series to make a definitive diagnosis.
Aquilion Prime has a new generation platform to optimize productivity and enhance diagnosis.
Streamlined Workflow From Set Up To Diagnosis
The standard reconstruction speed of up to 30 fps can be upgraded to an extremely fast 60 fps making the results of all your examinations even faster available while your time to diagnosis is as short as possible.
With the Aquilion Prime, helical scans can be made using 0.5mm x 80 rows significantly reducing scan times for all of your helical scans. The newly developed reconstruction algorithm guarantees superb image quality at all scan speeds.
In case of emergencies, the Aquilion Prime short scan times and fast reconstruction assure a fast access to images just when this is needed.
Routine 80-row ultrahelical acquisition is 43% faster than conventional 64-detector row helical systems. This increased acquisition speed results in shorter scan times, decreased contrast usage and costs and improved image quality due to decreased movement artifacts.
Aquilion Prime allows a full +/-30° gantry tilt for helical acquisitions, which assists in patient positioning and decreasing dose to radiosensitive organs such as the eyes.
With the Aquilion Prime, we offer you a level of flexibility where you would like to see the scan results.
With the additional display console and SUREXtension, various configurations are available to optimally adapt the operation workflow to your daily needs.
Every aspect of clinical performance has been considered in creating Aquilion PRIME. As a result, we improved patient comfort and clinical access, reduced need for radiation exposure and contrast media, boosted productivity while providing a new standard platform for treating a broader patient population with a wider range of applications.
iStation displays multilingual texts and movies to guide your patients in a convenient way through the different scan procedures. For children, there are colorful cartoons available showing what they have to do.
During cardiac scanning, the ECG trace is displayed for operator convenience and workflow enhancement.
The Aquilion Prime gantry has a 780mm aperture, the largest available in a high-end CT system, ensuring greater patient comfort. The unique patient couch, which is accurate even with a load of 300kg, is the only couch on the market with the technology-assisted couch top lateral sliding feature. Patient positioning has never been easier.
Innovative redesigning of Aquilion PRIME reduced the required installation area to just 14.8m2 giving you more space to work in. This high-end multislice CT system has been made compact enough to meet even the most restrictive siting requirements.
The patient couch can be lowered to 33cm above the floor. The couch can be positioned flexibly, allowing easy access for pediatric, elderly, and emergency patients.
In addition, the couch top width has been increased to 47cm to minimize patient discomfort.
The scan range of up to 1800mm makes it possible to cover multiple regions in a single scan setup, ideal for emergency patients. Additionally, lateral movement is possible to center the scan target without patient discomfort.
As a preventive measure against vibration, drive noise, and noise from air turbulence occurring during gantry rotation due to high scanning speeds, advanced fluid analysis has been employed in the design of the gantry.
The new gantry design reduces vibration caused by high-speed rotation, minimizing noise and improving patient comfort.
Aquilion Prime incorporates the latest clinical applications that have been developed for Aquilion ONE, ensuring accurate diagnosis.
Body Perfusion software analyzes the blood perfusion of an organ from dynamic scan images. The perfusion application can provide additional information for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of lesions.
Lung Volume Analysis automatically identifies tissues in the lung fields with a CT number lower than the specified value (regions of pulmonary emphysema) for visualization and analysis.
Dual Energy helical scanning alternates between high and low kV with each gantry rotation. Also the mA is automatically adjusted for the two different energies to ensure a matched signal-to-noise ratio which increases the accuracy of dual energy analysis. In addition, Aquilion Prime can automatically turn X-ray exposure off when the X-ray tube passes the front of the patient, thus minimizing exposure to radiosensitive organs such as the breasts and eye lenses.
Aquilion Prime performs coronary angiography using a prospectively triggered helical technique. This ensures uniformity in the Z-axis compared to step-and-shoot techniques.
SURECardio Prospective includes Canon’s proprietary arrhythmia rejection software which recognizes irregular heart rhythm and controls scan exposure accordingly to ensure a diagnostic study every time, and so minimize repetition of examinations.
Aquilion Prime supports Canon’s sophisticated suite of SURETechnologies™ and other advanced software tools to improve image quality, lower dose requirements and deliver the scan for diagnosis fastest in the industry. Continuous development of optional field upgradable software enhancements means that when it comes to maintaining state-of-the-art capabilities, your investment is always protected.
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