Pediatric Molecular Imaging SolutionsMeet the unique needs of pediatric imaging with these SPECT/CT and PET/CT solutions.
You face 5 key challenges in pediatric molecular imaging: speed, sensitivity, movement, stress, and time. An ability to solve these challenges can impact everything from patient outcomes to patient and family satisfaction.
Molecular imaging solutions that are engineered to account for the challenges of pediatric imaging can help. See how our SPECT/CT and PET/CT systems can meet the unique needs of your pediatric patients.
Speed
Long molecular imaging exams can stress children and their families.
Sensitivity
Still developing organs are more dose sensitive.
Protecting young, still growing organs from unnecessary dose is different than protecting adults. To meet these unique demands, you need solutions that support high-quality imaging at the lowest possible patient exposure.
Biograph Vision can help you reduce scan time and injected dose to boost productivity and lower the radiation exposure to the patients, all while also improving image quality and lesion detection. Combined with FlowMotion AI and the large 78cm bore, Biograph Vision is designed to reduce patient radiation exposure, provide a more comfortable experience for the patient, and decrease examination times.1
You can also provide significant dose reduction to your patients with our CARE (Combined Applications to Reduce Exposure) package on the Biograph family of
PET/CT and Symbia family of SPECT/CTscanners.
Our SAFIRE2 iterative reconstruction can provide up to 60% lower radiation dose for your CT examinations without compromising image quality.
The Symbia Pro.specta is standardly equipped with Tin Filter Technology. Tin Filter Technology filters out low energy photons which improves tissue differentiation while also lowering patient dose. Biograph family of PET/CT scanners with Edge CT also benefit from this technology.
Low kV dedicated pediatric protocols on the Biograph family of PET/CT and Symbia family of SPECT/CT scanners can further improve pediatric imaging with a range of targeted solutions to minimize radiation exposure and maintain diagnostic image quality with every scan.
Movement
Young, active children find it harder to keep still.
Stress
Children and parents are often anxious.
Anything you can do to distract children during their imaging exam can help ease anxiety and support a better experience. During the exam, the e.Media option on the Symbia family of SPECT scanners offers an integrated, high-quality video and sound system through our patient positioning monitor. With it, children can watch DVDs and videos, which can help reduce anxiety and stress.
Time savings
Young patients need empathy—and you need time to provide it.
Pediatric molecular imaging exams can take longer, whether staff needs time to ease anxieties or to ensure a proper exam set-up. Solutions that help streamline pediatric exams (while ensuring high-quality images) can support better exam experiences.
You can simplify and automate typically time-consuming and complex exams by using FAST (Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies) on the Biograph family of PET/CT and Symbia family of SPECT/CT systems. This can improve workflow efficiency, facilitate reproducible results (which can optimize outcomes and make diagnosis more reliable), and streamline examinations.
Once a PET/CT scan is complete, there are still many tasks to prepare an exam for reading, which means more time at the scanner and less time with patients. With FAST PET Workflow AI, the scanner automates and simplifies these tasks, transforming care delivery by optimizing clinical operations and increasing workforce productivity.
myExam Companion on the Symbia Pro.specta scanners offers an intelligent imaging experience, allowing end users to spend less time in front of a workstation, and more time with patients. Automated steps across the entire exam workflow improve efficiency and achieve high quality reproducible results.
Discover how our molecular imaging portfolio can address the challenges of pediatric imaging.
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In clinical practice, the use of SAFIRE 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.
