SOMATOM ForceGet two steps ahead with Dual Source CT

Get two steps ahead in clinical excellence, workflow performance, and expert leadership. Our Dual Source CT scanner SOMATOM Force enables new levels of image quality, clinical outcomes, and ultimately precision medicine. Intelligent automation supports safe, standardized, and highly performant workflows – allowing reproducible precision. Thinking beyond today, you’re connected to the future with an ever-growing expert community and exclusive access to our advanced research environment.

Get two steps ahead in clinical excellence
Get two steps ahead in workflow performance
Get two steps ahead in expert leadership

Features & Benefits

Get two steps ahead in clinical excellence

SOMATOM Force supports high-precision diagnosis, reliable therapy response evaluation, and improved care for every individual.

Improve diagnostic accuracy and get excellent image quality with our unique Vectron^TM X-ray tube

Bring image quality to the next level – with free-breathing and powerful imaging: Scan obese, elderly, unconscious or uncooperative patients without sedation, minimized motion artifacts, and high-resolution imaging.
Improve patient care – with gentle and ultra-low-dose scanning: With SOMATOM Force, you can reduce the amount of contrast media required, leading to improved patient well-being.
Make sound decisions – with 4D imaging at half the dose and dose-neutral Dual Energy: With 4D imaging and Dual Energy CT, you get high-quality images rich in information for more precise decisions – at low dose.

Get two steps ahead in workflow performance

Get consistent images with our FAST Integrated Workflow and adapt scanning parameters to offer patients personalized scanning.

FAST Integrated Workflow for automated precise patient positioning

Position patients precisely – with FAST Integrated Workflow: Our FAST 3D Camera supports fast, accurate positioning and the Touch Panels allow you to stay with your patient.
Accommodate the smallest to the tallest – with personalized scanning: Outstanding speed, power reserves, and sensitivity: SOMATOM Force adapts to every need. And smart automation adjusts scan parameters to every individual.
Zero-click postprocessing with Rapid Results: Get zero-click postprocessing within the selected scan protocol, and fast and reproducible results – independent of operator skills.

Get two steps ahead in expert leadership

Increase your reputation by spearheading medical innovation – and share advanced clinical knowledge in a circle of peer experts.

Interact with peers in the CT community. — Advance your research with professional tools

Advance your research – with professional tools: Develop and share algorithms, test reading prototypes, and explore new trends in our syngo.via Frontier¹ research environment.
Connect with peers and lead a global community: Gain access to a community of clinical experts that regularly shares knowledge and the latest medical developments peer-to-peer.
Expand your capabilities and rethink your way of working: With Dual Source imaging, CT started to transform care delivery. One of the most prominent examples of change is trauma imaging.

Clinical Use

4D
Collimation: 48 x 1.2 mm
Scan time: 47.32 s
Scan length: 102 mm
Rotation time: 0.5 s
Tube setting: 70 kV, 250 mAs
CTDI_vol: 196.19 mGy
DLP: 2,910.9 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 6.11 mSv

Perfusion defect is shown in the right parietal lobe
Acquired at 70 kV

_{Courtesy of Radiology LMU Grosshadern, Munich, Germany}

Collimation: 2 x 192 x 0.6 mm
Pitch: 3.2
Scan time: 0.13 s
Scan length: 95 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 70/70 kV, 233 mAs
CTDI_vol: 0.66 mGy
DLP: 9.8 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 0.14 mSv
HR: 85-90 bpm
CM: 20 mL

Vectron® X-ray tube combined with Turbo Flash mode allows low-dose imaging
In this case, only 0.14 mSv and 20 mL of contrast media is needed; even with elevated heart rates

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

Collimation: 2 x 192 x 0.6 mm
Pitch: 3.2
Scan time: 0.17 s
Scan length: 125 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 70/70 kV, 630 mAs
CTDI_vol: 1.77 mGy
DLP: 29.3 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 0.4 mSv
HR: 75-130 bpm
CM: 40 mL

High temporal resolution (66 ms) combined with Turbo Flash mode delivers outstanding images
Outstanding quality even with high and unstable heart rates such as here

_{Courtesy of Baotou City No. 8 Hospital, Baotou, PR China}

Collimation: 2 x 192 x 0.6 mm
Pitch: 3.2
Scan time: 0.61 s
Scan length: 488.5 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 100/100 kV, 418 mAs
CTDI_vol: 4.14 mGy
DLP: 202.4 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 1.73 mSv
CM: 40 mL
HR: 38-214 bpm

Outstanding image quality even with unstable and high heart rates
Turbo Flash mode covers 50 cm within 0.6 s showing coronary arteries with finest details
Acquisition performed with only 40 mL of contrast media agent

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

Collimation: 2 x 192 x 0.6 mm
Pitch: 2.0
Scan time: 0.28 s
Scan length: 128 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 70/70 kV, 80 mAs
CTDI_vol: 0.72 mGy
DLP: 13.2 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 1.39 mSv
CM: 7 mL

70 kV Turbo Flash mode for pediatrics enables low-dose imaging with low-contrast media usage as in this case with only 7 mL
An ultra-fast acquisition time of 0.28 s can help reduce the need for potentially harmful sedation

_{Courtesy of University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany}

Collimation: 76 x 0.6 mm
Scan time: 0.61 s
Scan length: 79 mm
Rotation time: 0.28 s
Tube setting: 70/70 kV, 115 mAs
CTDI_vol: 1.16 mGy
DLP: 9.1 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 0.33 mSv
HR: 130 bpm

Combination of Turbo Flash mode and unprecedented temporal resolution allows motion of the heart to be frozen even at heart rates of 130 bpm
Remarkable low dose levels make it suitable for pediatric coronary evaluation

_{Courtesy of Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital, Karolinska University, Stockholm, Sweden}

Dual Energy Lung Imaging

Collimation: 128 × 0.6 mm
Scan time: 4.12 s
Scan length: 355 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 80/Sn 150 kV, 115/70 mAs
CTDI_vol: 7.78 mGy
DLP: 298.7 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 4.18 mSv

Fast Dual Source Dual Energy technology helped visualize the degree of perfusion defects after resection of the left lung to treat suspicious lesion

_{Courtesy of University Hospital Calmette, Lille, France}

Dual Energy and CT Perfusion Liver Imaging

4D
Collimation: 192 x 1.2 mm
Scan time: 28.5 s
Scan length: 294 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 70 kV, 189 mAs
CTDI_vol: 48.17 mGy
DLP: 1,015.73 mGy*cm

DE Abdomen-A
Collimation: 2 x 192 x 0.6 mm
Scan time: 6.71 s
Scan length: 308 mm
Rotation time: 0.5 s
Tube setting: 80/150 kV, 76/50 mAs
CTDI_vol: 3.12 mGy
DLP: 86.77 mGy*cm

_{Courtesy of Peking University Medical College, Beijing, PR China}

Dual Energy and CT Perfusion Liver Imaging

Collimation: 32 x 0.7 mm
Scan time: 10 s
Scan length: 143 mm
Rotation time: 1.0 s
Pitch factor: 0.55
Scan parameters: Sn110 kV/94 mAs
CTDI_vol: 2.58 mGy
DLP: 30 mGy*cm

Thick slice MIP helps to evaluate even small vessels and perfused suspicious lesion areas
Precise Dual Energy helps to evaluate tumor
Low-dose perfusion images provide time MIP and show inhomogeneous tumor of the liver

_{Courtesy of Peking University Medical College, Beijing, PR China}

Myocardio Perfusion Imaging

Collimation: 192 × 0.6 mm
Scan time: 33.41 s
Scan length: 104.3 mm
Rotation time: 0.61 s
Tube setting: 70 kV, 275 mAs
CTDIvol: 43.08 mGy
DLP: 455 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 6.37 mSv
Heart rate: 85-92 bpm

Assessment of myocardial perfusion requires the most efficient possible use of radiation dose and high temporal resolution to cover a broad range of heart rates

_{Courtesy of Peking University Medical College, Beijing, PR China}

Dual Energy Cardiac Imaging

Collimation: 2 x 128 x 0.6 mm
Scan time: 10.9 s
Scan length: 208.4 mm
Rotation time: 0.25 s
Tube setting: 90/Sn150 kV, 128/108 mAs
CTDI_vol: 10.99 mGy
DLP: 230.9 mGy*cm
Eff. dose: 3.23 mSv
HR: 53-58 bpm

Advanced diagnostic information with Dual Energy (DE)
With a single scan, both CTA and myocardium PBV information are acquired without any dose penalty for DE acquisition

^{Courtesy of MUSC Medical Center, Charleston, USA}

Vectron® X-ray tube combined with Turbo Flash mode allows low-dose imaging
In this case, only 0.14 mSv and 20 mL of contrast media is needed; even with elevated heart rates

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

High temporal resolution (66 ms) combined with Turbo Flash mode delivers outstanding images
Outstanding quality even with high and unstable heart rates such as here

_{Courtesy of Baotou City No. 8 Hospital, Baotou, PR China}

Outstanding image quality even with unstable and high heart rates
Turbo Flash mode covers 50 cm within 0.6 s showing coronary arteries with finest details
Acquisition performed with only 40 mL of contrast media agent

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

70 kV Turbo Flash mode for pediatrics enables low-dose imaging with low-contrast media usage as in this case with only 7 mL
An ultra-fast acquisition time of 0.28 s can help reduce the need for potentially harmful sedation

_{Courtesy of University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany}

Combination of Turbo Flash mode and unprecedented temporal resolution allows motion of the heart to be frozen even at heart rates of 130 bpm
Remarkable low dose levels make it suitable for pediatric coronary evaluation

_{Courtesy of Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital, Karolinska University, Stockholm, Sweden}