- SIGNA Premier wide bore 3.0T MRI system
can enable up to 60 percent faster scan times with 2x the image
resolution, and introduces AIR technology to increase patient's
comfort with "blanket-like" coils
- 4 out of 5 patients said Senographe
Pristina Dueta patient-assisted compression made their mammograms
more comfortable and more than half said it led to less
anxiety
- Centricity Universal Viewer increases
workflow efficiency by up to 40 percent by utilizing patient
priors
At the 2017 edition of the Radiological Society of North
America’s annual meeting (RSNA), GE Healthcare will deliver on its
commitment to be the leading provider of outcome-based imaging
solutions by introducing new technologies, services, and digital
solutions designed to improve patient experience, increase clinical
confidence and heighten productivity.
“We’re pleased to showcase a range of innovations at this year's
RSNA. These are technologies that we’ve developed in close
collaboration with our partners and customers,” said Kieran Murphy,
President and CEO of GE Healthcare. “GE Healthcare’s focus is to
leverage our medical, engineering and digital expertise to drive
precision health and enhanced clinical outcomes.”
With the largest installed base globally, strong application
leadership and more than 25 years of proven deep learning and
artificial intelligence expertise, GE Healthcare is leveraging
digital to realize clinical and operational outcomes across the
healthcare industry. By combining software applications with best
in class medical devices and services, GE is committed to help
administrators and clinical staff deliver better patient outcomes
more efficiently.
At the heart of our approach is GE’s Applied intelligence - the
analytics and artificial intelligence brain that powers GE
Healthcare’s leading applications, devices and services. In a
healthcare delivery network, Applied Intelligence becomes the
thread that flows between the machines and software to help unlock
organizations’ full potential with insights.
With more than 200 imaging applications across GE Healthcare’s
imaging portfolio, the company’s digital journey is well
underway. GE Healthcare will showcase its accelerated
digital commitment as well as the new AI-infused imaging
applications, powered by GE Healthcare’s Applied Intelligence, at
RSNA in the digital showcase inside the GE booth.
Improving Patient
Experience
Magnetic Resonance is highly effective at imaging patients, but
traditional coils can be bulky, heavy and rigid, causing discomfort
to patients and technologists. GE Healthcare’s new suite of RF
coils, AIR Technology, are now commercially available on
SIGNA Premier, and are 60 percent lighter on the patient.
The ultra-lightweight design makes it easier for the technologist
to position the patient and addresses several clinical needs. AIR
Coils look like a blanket and fit 99.9 percent of patients, with
technology engineered for higher density channel count and
increased SNR. SIGNA Premier wide bore 3.0T MRI system, now
commercially available in the United States, features GE
Healthcare’s latest, short-bore, high-homogeneity 3.0T
superconductive magnet; the most powerful gradient system GE
Healthcare has ever developed for a wide bore 3.0T system; and a
new, digital RF transmit and receive architecture. It enables 2x
faster whole-body imaging compared to conventional scans, and 60
percent faster1 images.
Senographe Pristina Dueta is an industry-first
patient-assisted mammography device that literally puts women in
control of their own mammograms. Designed by women for women, an
innovative wireless remote control allows patients to manage their
own compression, under the supervision of a technologist, during
the exam performed on GE Healthcare’s newest mammography system,
Senographe Pristina After the breast is properly positioned
by the technologist, the patient has the option to adjust her
compression using Pristina Dueta. Studies in Europe show 4 out of 5
patients using Pristina Dueta said it made the exam more
comfortable, and more than half said the device led to less
anxiety. Clinical evidence used in the FDA evaluation and clearance
of Pristina Dueta shows use of the device does not compromise image
quality or increase exam time. For women with dense breast tissue,
supplemental screening may be recommended. The Invenia
ABUS (Automated Breast Ultrasound System) is proven to increase
invasive cancer detection by 55 percent and is the only
FDA-approved ultrasound system for dense breast tissue screening
when used in addition to mammography.
SenoBright HD is a next-generation Contrast Enhanced
Spectral Mammography (CESM) diagnostic exam intended for patients
who have just had an inconclusive mammogram or ultrasound, or are
at high risk of breast cancer. SenoBright HD exams are performed at
the same time, same location, and with the same mammography
equipment – Senographe Pristina - enabling the entire exam to take
less than seven minutes. As compared to the first generation CESM,
SenoBright HD delivers clearer images and improves acquisition time
by 40 percent in women with large breasts. CESM provides high
specificity to reduce false-positives and helps prevent unnecessary
exams. Images are immediately available for review following the
exam.
Enabling Better Clinical
Outcomes
Helix advanced imaging processing is a revolutionary
platform that features advanced image processing, ultra-high
resolution digital detectors, powerful analytics and intelligent
systems. Helix delivers sharp detail at low dose and consistent
performance in X-ray, despite variations in exposure technique
and patient anatomy. The power of Helix coupled with FlashPad
HD digital detectors improves contrast detectability by up to
40 percent due to ultra-high resolution, enhanced noise control and
advanced image processing. The new Discovery XR656HD premium
fixed digital radiographic system features Helix and an expanded
suite of workflow automation and analytics tools. It is designed to
eliminate unnecessary X-ray image adjustments and repeated exams.
It gives technologists and radiologists sharp detail – with up to
4x higher definition in each image when using FlashPad HD detectors
– and the balanced contrast and brightness needed at a low dose,
right from the very first image.
LOGIQ S8 XDclear 2.0 is a lightweight, portable
ultrasound system designed for a wide range of applications
including abdominal, small parts, breast, vascular, OB/GYN,
cardiology, pediatrics, musculoskeletal, urology and more.
Integrated with FibroScan® technology from Echosens and Shear Wave
technology, the LOGIQ S8 XDclear 2.0 can help diagnose liver
disease quickly and non-invasively, assess fibrosis stage in
chronic liver disease and monitor treatment.
OEC Elite CFD with vascular applications is the first
premium mobile C-arm offering with both a 31 cm and 21cm CMOS flat
panel detector. It is designed to produce high image quality at a
low dose with a 14 percent improvement over an image intensifier in
line pair resolution at normal dose. The OEC Elite CFD produces
crisp, clean images, enabling better imaging confidence by allowing
surgeons to see greater differentiation between a patient’s
anatomy, such as bone, organs and skin and exceptional vessel
detail in even the toughest vascular procedures with a tiny 0.008”
guidewire.
High-quality cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images are
essential to improve the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of
challenging Interventional radiology procedures. However, there are
barriers to acquiring these images, including limited field of
view; the time-consuming and tedious nature of the procedures; and
a susceptibility to artifacts. GE worked with physicians around the
world to understand these challenges and develop a suite of
solutions designed to surmount them. These include the Discovery
IGS 7; Motion Freeze2, a new, pioneering solution
that can help compensate for involuntary respiratory motion
artifacts that threaten CBCT quality, reducing the likelihood of
unusable acquisitions; Liver ASSIST3, a software
solution that helps identify vessels feeding liver tumors for liver
embolization; INTERACT Active Tracker4, software
feature that enables multi-modality fusion imaging in ablation
procedures (fluoroscopy and ultrasound) to create a comprehensive
3D view of liver tumors; and Needle ASSIST5,
providing real-time visualization of needle positions in the 3D
space.
Achieving Operational
Efficiency
It can take up to 230 mouse clicks to access reject data and up
to seven hours to calculate a department’s reject percentage for a
mid-sized hospital. X-ray Quality App featuring Repeat/Reject
Analytics software can help avoid that time and effort by
automatically identifying and analyzing the root causes of rejected
X-ray images for quick and easy review. Helping to identify the
root cause of rejected images can reduce unnecessary radiation
exposure to patients and manual work required to measure
repeat/reject rates. In addition, reducing non-value add imaging
may increase capacity for additional diagnostic exams in an imaging
department.
Today radiologists waste an estimated 19 percent of their time
having to use multiple systems. To address this challenge, GE
Healthcare’s Centricity Universal Viewer has been shown to
increase reading efficiency by up to 40 to 50 percent at imaging
centers around the world. The new native breast screening and
diagnostic workflows provide a single viewer which can be used for
all modalities. By utilizing patient priors, including CT, MRI and
Tomosynthesis, as well as other patient reports such as clinical
notes and pathology reports, in the diagnosis, Centricity Universal
Viewer helps to increase workflow efficiency and support more
confident diagnoses.
Imaging Related Clinical Context, developed in
partnership with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,6 delivers
relevant patient clinical content in context, including EMR data
such as surgical notes, pathology reports and clinical notes,
directly to the radiologist and embedded in their existing
workflow. With a deep learning algorithm that learns as
radiologists provide input, physicians will be able to more quickly
reach a confident diagnosis based on a more complete picture of the
patient’s full medical condition.
GE Healthcare’s patented deep learning-based Smart Reading
Protocols aims to ensure each radiologist’s protocols are
always automatically hung in the same way. SRP increases
radiologist productivity by learning each user’s or group’s reading
tendencies to automate image setup including launching advanced
visualization and other applications.
New to GE’s Revolution family of CT scanners, the Revolution
Frontier enables effortless, effective diagnoses and provides
easy access to advanced clinical applications to allow the
clinician to quickly and simply customize the scan to the needs of
the patient. The system includes an optimized imaging chain for
faster and higher quality processing, and our ASiR-V
next-generation iterative reconstruction to provide superior image
quality. With Revolution Frontier, GSI Pro takes spectral imaging
to the next level through 2x faster reconstruction. Scans using GSI
Pro can deliver tissue characterization, contrast dose reduction,
metal artifact reduction and quantitative information about
chemical composition, providing an unmatched spectral capability
across the full field of view.
GE Healthcare’s newest mobile X-ray product, the Optima
XR240amx with FlashPad HD digital detectors, enables clinicians
to see exceptionally fine detail in all anatomies and has a
reliable and maneuverable design and small footprint for complex
care environments. It is the highest resolution, pediatric-capable
mobile X-ray system in the industry and offers seamless X-ray
imaging support for carefully controlled neonatal environments.
Both the system and detectors have dependable power management
technology allowing two detectors to be charged simultaneously
in-bin, with or without grids attached, taking the guess work out
of detector battery charging. The system can support imaging 50
patients over 9.5 hours.7
Tube Watch is a predictive solution designed to help
remotely monitor tubes and predict failures before any disruption
occurs. The service enables systems to be repaired remotely or at a
more convenient time. Tube Watch allows proactive part delivery and
service scheduling to help eliminate unplanned disruption and
potentially reduce downtime by up to 75 percent.8 Tube Watch helps
anticipate CT failure before it happens, turn unplanned
downtime into planned service, reduce operational downtime,
and enhance patient and staff satisfaction.
Focused on the power of digital to enable better
outcomes, Smart Subscription provides customers
with continuous access to the latest imaging software updates,
through an automatic downloaded to their CT scanners from the
cloud. Smart Subscription offers flexible options for smarter
budgeting, giving health systems, hospitals and clinics the
opportunity to standardize applications across all CT units, and
can select only the tools they need, with an option to add or
remove tools at any time. With Smart Subscription, customers can be
confident that their GE CT scanners will be up to date with the
latest imaging software for the life of the system.
The full GE Healthcare RSNA 2017 press kit can be found here.
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1 As compared to previous generation 3T wide-bore platforms.
2 The improvement related to Motion Freeze depends on the
acquisition conditions, table position, patient, type of motion,
anatomical location and clinical practice. Motion Freeze is an
optional feature of 3DXR (part of GE vascular systems IGS 5, IGS 6
and IGS 7 or IGS 7OR).
3 Liver ASSIST solution includes Hepatic VCAR, FlightPlan For
Liver and Integrated Registration which can be use independently
and requires AW workstation with Volume Viewer, Volume Viewer
Interventional. These applications are sold separately.
4 INTERACT Active Tracker is an optional feature of 3DXR (part
of GE vascular systems IGS 5, IGS 6 and IGS 7 or IGS 7OR). This
feature supports only one ‘Active Tracker’ type: the OmniTRAXTM
Active Patient Tracker.
5 NEEDLE ASSIST solution includes TrackVision 2, stereo 3D and
requires AW workstation with Volume Viewer, Volume Viewer Innova.
These applications are sold separately.
6 UPMC is a collaboration partner of GEHC and as a result, has a
financial interest in the development and commercialization of
certain GEHC next generation imaging products.
7 Assuming 50 patients (100 exposures), 5 min per exam, 2
exposures per patient, 4 min between patients, Travel time 60
minutes, Intermediate charging 60 min.
8 Percentage noted is based on various assumptions, including
but not limited to the use of Tube Watch consistent with the Tube
Watch terms and conditions, timely receipt of the tube-health
notice, parts and labor availability, immediate access to
customer's equipment, and may not be typical of every customer's
experience.
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