GE Healthcare CT660S Brochure

GE Healthcare

Step into the high
performance CT

Optima* CT660S

Because you simply want
the best for your patients…

It’s no secret that hospitals and clinicians today are faced with having to do more
with less. Healthcare reform, market uncertainties and changes in the delivery of
patient care including the emergence of Accountability Care Organizations are now
driving purchasing decisions. Yet the need for affordable quality patient care at low
dose is more important than ever.

Using feedback obtained from customers, we’ve created a CT scanner with
a simplifi ed workfl ow for quick and streamlined operation. Workfl ow features like
ED mode and auto patient positioning, a user-friendly console and synchronized
injection enables users to spend more time focused on patient care and comfort.

The Optima* CT660S is a new generation, scalable Volume CT scanner that brings
together diagnostic power and workfl ow effi ciency, enabling fast, high-quality
acquisitions at optimized dose. It helps institutions offer exceptional patient care,
fi nancial performance, and operational excellence. Our system solution features
advanced capabilities in across applications such as cardiac, oncology, angiography
and dynamic imaging.

Simple

to Use

As providers consider options to manage dose, we created Lower Dose by Design
— combining research, training, technology, and clinical practice to achieve high
diagnostic image quality at optimized dose. We are committed to helping you deliver
the highest quality patient care — with features like ASiR***, ODM, Optidose* and
Dose Check.*

The Optima* CT660S also consumes up to 60% less energy than previous GE CT
systems and boasts a 15% lower siting requirement compared to other 64-channel
detector scanners. Over the life of the product, these features can translate into
lower operational costs.

The Optima* CT660S will not only meet your current needs but is also a platform that
can meet your future needs. You can pick from a variety of options that works for you
today and that will allow you to work within your budget and meet your clinical needs
tomorrow.

Because you want the best for your patients, we designed for you
the Optima* CT660S.

Scalable

64-slice

Cardiac

Capability

High

Performance

Imaging

Low

Dose

**

Scalable platform

to meet your future needs

Traditionally in CT there has been an undesirable trade-off between

at low dose

image performance and low radiation dose levels. While high image
performance often requires greater patient exposure to diagnostic
radiation, lower dose levels usually mean lower image clarity due
to higher noise and more artifacts.

GE Healthcare has taken the next step toward eliminating
this trade-off by developing parallel technologies to see smaller
details while decreasing the dose.

Giving you profound image clarity

An innovative detector

developed for high spatial and temporal
resolutions

The V-Res* detector is optimized for thin-slice, volumetric imaging

with high spatial and temporal resolution. Its design and GE’s patented

HiLight* material composition combine to satisfy the critical-to-quality
requirements for primary speed, afterglow, X-ray stopping power, transparency,
light-to-electronic signal conversion, z-axis uniformity, and robust performance.

Its exceptional capabilities enable the Optima* CT660S, (scalable to 128-slice)
to uniformly and routinely achieve exceptional image performance in
a wide array of clinical applications, including cardiac imaging.

ASiR***

ASiR may help clinicians achieve dose reductions of up
to 40% while delivering the diagnostic image quality
needed for confi dent diagnosis°. It may also improve low
contrast detectability+. ASiR, a projection-based iterative
reconstruction technology, changes the dose paradigm
across many anatomies and patients. Customers using
ASiR have demonstrated excellent diagnostic image
quality at low dose across exam types and body regions.

Optidose*

Dose reduction with ASiR is combined with
GE Healthcare’s proven Optidose technologies that
deliver dose reduction at the source. Optidose offers
SmartTrack* dynamic collimation that keeps the X-ray
beam tightly focused on the active detector cells and
Dynamic Z-Axis tracking, which blocks unused X-rays
at the beginning and end of a helical scan.

Dose check*

Prior to starting the scan, Dose Check provides tools to
notify and alert the operator setting the scan parameters
whether the estimated dose index is above user-defi ned
notifi cation values. The Dose Check feature is designed
to comply with the NEMA XR-25-2010 standard.

ODM

In addition to the 3D and ECG mA modulation features,
the Optima* CT660S introduces Organ Dose Modulation
(ODM)—providing reduction of radiation dose via X-ray
tube mA modulation for superfi cial tissues (such as
breasts and crystal lenses). Dose reduction at the body
surface is up to 40%, while the noise increase of
the superfi cial internal structures is less than 10%.

The Optima* CT660S has been designed to

Designed to be simple

to use with a streamlined

be simple to use, so you can focus less on
the buttons and more on your patient.

workflow

Automated post-processing
at your fi ngertips

The Xtream Display shows basic patient information on
the gantry monitor. As such, the user can confi rm patient
information in the scan room, improving workfl ow and
potentially reducing the opportunity for error. Pre-scanning
can be accomplished in as few as fi ve touches. For example,
the Optima* CT660S exceptional One stop scanning mode**
provides streamlined workfl ow, shown on the Xtream
Display with phrases such as Patient selection,
Protocol selection, and Confi rm.

Enhanced Table: Scan a whole-body
trauma without moving the patient

The VT2000** allows patients, weighing up to 227 kg, to be
imaged through a long, scannable range. The Default Patient
Positioning provides semi-automatic positioning according
to the type of exam, reducing manual positioning and
streamlining workfl ow. The Xtream Display shows pictures
that help operators understand the correct exam position.