Somatom X.cite (KT-scanner)

2019: Announcement

At the end of November, 2019 Siemens Healthineers provided the computer (KT) Somatom X.cite tomograph which uses artificial intelligence to help the user with difficult clinical situations.

Somatom X. cite represents the KT-scanner with one source of x-ray emission. The scanner is supplied with myExam Companion - the intelligent user interface which determines optimal parameters of radiation for each patient, using different parameters, including a sex, age and data of inspections, for example, of an electrocardiography. According to the representative of the company, Somatom X. cite is the first scanner using the concept of myExam Companion according to the company.

Provided to Siemens Healthineers the Somatom X.cite computer tomograph (CT) which uses artificial intelligence

The myExam Companion AI system studied for 200,000 protocols of scanning and the recommendations of clinical experts which defined the strategy of scanning and made algorithms of clinical solutions. Proceeding from these data, the Siemens company created more than 20 algorithms of adoption of clinical solutions determined by the user which are displayed or on the console of the operator of the scanner, or on mobile removable tablets which can be used for control of the scanner.

Somatom X. cite has a 82-cm opening and a x-ray tube of Vectron which was used only on the Somatom Force KT-scanner with two radiation sources earlier. The scanner is also equipped with the surveillance camera for the patient, the new camera 2D of visualization which allows technologists to control provision of patients when they are in the scanner. A system is also supplied with the new visual indicator of a delay of breath and also the system of visual instructions with color marking - they allow the radiologist to transfer instructions in a complex to the patient and to control his breath for minimization of the distorting artifacts.^[1]

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