The Food and Drug Administration recently cleared two new Siemens Healthineers CT systems that are aimed at bolstering radiation therapy planning, the company announced on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
Those include the 64-slice go.Sim and 128-slice go.Open Pro, which are both part of the German-based company’s SOMATOM go. platform, created to help reduce errors and time to treatment. Features range from automated quality assurance to a mobile workflow that walks radiation therapists through the process.
Siemens has also incorporated Direct Intelligent 4D technology into the go.Open Pro to help adapt imaging to each patient’s breathing patterns in real time. This allows radiologists to reduce image variation, decrease target margins and spare healthy tissue, the company noted.
“The new i4D technology can help our customers dramatically reduce image artifacts, enabling them to reach a new level of precision in radiation therapy treatment planning,” Hanno Dotzel, a VP of surgery and cancer therapy at Healthineers North America, said in a statement.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.