Dual Source CTReady beyond tomorrow

Is your current equipment ready for new healthcare trends? Will it allow you to meet all of your patients’ needs? We created Dual Source CT to prepare you for these challenges. Thanks to unrivaled power and precision, Dual Source CT enables you to obtain high-quality results in every situation easily and conveniently. Our revolutionary technology is the right match for even the most challenging and advanced imaging applications. With Dual Source technology, you can now face tomorrow´s healthcare needs with confidence.

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Explore untapped potential with Dual Source CT

Since its introduction, users have employed Dual Source CT technology to push the boundaries of imaging. And there is still a world of applications to explore. Discover the full potential of Dual Source CT.

Explore untapped potential in cardiac with Dual Source CT technology

Explore untapped potential in cardiac imaging

Cardiac CT was the starting point of DSCT – and there are still many applications only possible with Dual Source technology.

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Explore untapped potential in functional imaging

Dual Energy spectral imaging and large coverage perfusion of DSCT open exciting possibilities in functional imaging.

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Explore untapped workflow potential to leverage Dual Source CT technology.

Explore untapped potential in productivity

Combining ultra-fast acquisition with smart automation opens
new avenues in CT productivity.

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Technology ready beyond tomorrow

Dual Source CT offers five key imaging modes. They help you perform imaging procedures beyond the capabilities of single source scanners.

Fast temporal resolution

Dual Source CT can achieve temporal resolutions even below 75 milliseconds because both tubes work together during scans. No matter how demanding the application, you get artifact-free images beyond the physical limitations of single source scanners.

Turbo Flash

Dual Source CT is capable of high-pitch spiral scans, resulting in unparalleled routine acquisition speeds that help you keep patient motion in check.

Dual Energy

Dual Source CT Dual Energy spectral imaging allows you to cover large anatomical volumes at high speeds and low doses. Because you always get the widest spectral separation possible, you can quantify even the subtlest changes such as bone marrow defects. With independent kV and mAs options for each tube, coupled with the dose-reducing Tin Filter and enhanced spectral separation, this is Dual Energy as it is meant to work.

Dual Power

Dual Source CT offers unrivaled imaging power. With the combined output of two extraordinary tubes along with lower kV imaging capabilities, you can keep radiation dose and contrast media levels down.

Adaptive 4D Spiral

Dual Source CT is ideally suited for dynamic imaging. Thanks to precise table movements and two powerful tubes, it lets you achieve extremely wide coverage at exactly the right moment in time while keeping the dose in check all along.

Clinical Use of SOMATOM Force

At the top of our Dual Source CT portfolio, SOMATOM Force enables a new level of adaptability to patients, image quality, and clinical outcomes. Examine patients without having to control their heart rate, with no need for them to hold their breath, and with the lowest possible dose of contrast media. Make clearly quantified therapy evaluations with dose-neutral Dual Energy. See yourself.

Emergency case of occult ruptured aneurysm

Scan time: 16.62 s
Scan length: 742 mm
100/Sn150 kV
CTDI_vol: 8.77 mGy
DLP: 642.2 mGy cm

Dual Source Dual Energy (DSDE) CT enables fast whole-body imaging at low radiation dose levels, also suitable in emergency cases as shown in this case of an occult ruptured aneurysm. Improved evaluation with contrast enhanced DSDE.

_{Courtesy of University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
¹Requires license syngo.via Cinematic VRT.}

ECG triggered Turbo Flash scan of coronary, carotid and cerebral arteries

Scan time: 0.61 s
Scan length: 488.5 mm
100/100 kV
CTDI_vol: 4.14 mGy
DLP: 202.4 mGy cm

Outstanding image quality even with unstable and high heart rates. Turbo Flash mode covers 737 cm/s showing coronary arteries with finest details. Acquisition done with only 40 mL of contrast media agent.

_{Courtesy of Bautou Central Hospital, Bautou, PR China}

Emergency case of occult ruptured aneurysm

Scan time: 16.62 s
Scan length: 742 mm
100/Sn150 kV
CTDI_vol: 8.77 mGy
DLP: 642.2 mGy cm

ECG triggered Turbo Flash scan of coronary, carotid and cerebral arteries

Scan time: 0.61 s
Scan length: 488.5 mm
100/100 kV
CTDI_vol: 4.14 mGy
DLP: 202.4 mGy cm

Clinical Use of SOMATOM Drive

SOMATOM Drive, our second Dual Source CT scanner, provides reliable diagnostic results across all clinical disciplines and helps you achieve a new quality of patient care. See for yourself how you can individualized treatment for every patient.

Low-dose thorax for evaluation of pneumonia

22-month-old child, 8 kg (18 lbs), free breathing, no sedation, patient rolling at time of scan
70 kV CARE Child protocols can be performed with superfast scan modes for lower dose in highly sensitive patients - even with the patient motion seen in this case.

^{Courtesy of Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital AKH, Vienna, Austria}