SOMATOM Definition Edge ecoExceeding expectations

Confronted with increasingly complex clinical requirements and rising numbers of patients, medical institutions are expected to perform at the limits of capacity every day. SOMATOM Definition Edge eco helps you not only meet, but exceed these expectations by improving your institution’s process efficiency and patient outcome in all clinical capabilities – from contrast media-efficient TAVI planning to precise therapy response management, from low dose therapy control to optimized emergency care workflow.

Exceeding expectations in:

Cardiology
Emergency Medicine
Oncology

Features & Benefits

CT Scanner - SOMATOM Definition Edge - Cardiology

Exceeding expectations in Cardiology

Making highly precise plaque differentiation part of your clinical routine will not only improve patient outcome, but also increase process efficiency, as unmistakingly clear findings will drastically reduce the number of discussions about the state of the plaque. Covering greater volumes faster, improving contrast media efficiency in low kV TAVI planning, and introducing reliable, high-speed triple rule-out scanning will expand your institution’s clinical capabilities – and help you exceed the expectations that come with increasingly complex cardiac cases.
How is this possible? Learn more about the new Stellar detector and the Straton MX X-ray tube.

Metal artifact reduction with SOMATOM Definition Edge and its clinical outcome at BG Klinik, Tübingen.

Exceeding expectations in Emergency Medicine

Emergency scanning is as much about time as it is about image quality. You will be able to optimize process efficiency with solutions that let you not only improve emergency workflow but also substantially reduce door-to-image time, from pediatric to obese patients. SOMATOM Definition Edge enables excellent tissue evaluation, allows for the scanning of pediatric and obese patients without dose discussions, and facilitates a minimized sedation and breath hold with a pitch of 1.7 at 23 cm/sec, so you can reduce door-to-image and optimize your overall emergency workflow. Learn more about the Stellar detector and the Straton MX X-ray tube, our complete FAST CARE technology, Adaptive 4D Spiral Plus, TrueSignal technology, Tin Filter technology, and iMAR².

TwinBeam Dual Energy

Exceeding expectations in Oncology

With around a quarter of therapies adjusted after response assessment, a key challenge in oncology is finding out if the tumor is responsive to therapy. Making therapy response assessment faster, more reliable, and easier to manage, will directly benefit your workforce as well as your patients. Expanding your clinical capabilities with improved, low dose therapy control, and CT-based early tumor identification will benefit your institution both in daily practice and in the long run: the more reliable and dose-efficient the technology gets, the greater its role will become for preventive care, as well.
Find out how ADMIRE³, Tin Filter technology, Adaptive 3D Intervention Suite, TwinBeam Dual Energy and True Dual Energy CT Applications make it happen.

Clinical Use

Without contrast

100 kV, 422 eff. mAs

Scan time: 12.0 s
Scan length: 170 mm
CTDI_vol: 40.83 mGy
DLP: 704 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 1.47 mSv

With contrast

100 kV, 422 eff. mAs

Scan time: 12.0 s
Scan length: 170 mm
CTDI_vol: 40.92 mGy
DLP: 706 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 1.48 mSv

Head sequence without and with contrast
Excellent tissue differentiation

_{Courtesy of CIMOP Bizet, Paris, France}

Technical Specifications

Scanner type	Single Source
Detectors	Stellar Detector
X-ray tube	Straton MX
Max. scan speed	230 mm/s¹
In-plane temporal resolution	142 ms¹
Rotation time	0.28 s¹
kV steps	70, 80, 100, 120, 140 kV
mA @ 70 kV, 80 kV, 90 kV	500 mA @ 70 kV 650 mA @ 80 kV
Spatial resolution	0.30 mm
Table load up to	307 kg/676 lbs¹
Gantry opening	78 cm
Generator power	80 kW, 100 kW¹
Slice acquisition	128
Tin Filters	yes¹
iMAR	yes^1,3

Services & Support

Education & Training

Optional

iMAR is designed to yield images with a reduced level of metal artifacts compared to conventional reconstruction if the underlying CT data is distorted by metal being present in the scanned object. The exact amount of metal artifact reduction and the corresponding improvement in image quality achievable depends on a number of factors, including composition and size of the metal part within the object, the patient size, anatomical location and clinical practice. It is recommended, to perform iMAR reconstruction in addition to conventional reconstruction.

In clinical practice, the use of ADMIRE may reduce CT patient dose depending on the clinical task, patient size, anatomical location, and clinical practice. A consultation with a radiologist and a physicist should be made to determine the appropriate dose to obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical task.

The products/features shown on this webpage are not commercially available in all countries. Due to regulatory reasons their future availability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers organization for further details.