FAST Integrated Workflow for CT

We’ve invented a new workflow that helps you precisely position your patients. It’s an interplay of the world’s first FAST 3D Camera, the Touch Panels on our CT scanners, a smart use of artificial intelligence and of course you, the user. Find out more about how this workflow will change your view on CT.

Available for our computed tomography products, such as SOMATOM go.All, SOMATOM go.Top, SOMATOM X.cite, SOMATOM X.ceed, SOMATOM Drive, SOMATOM Force and NAEOTOM Alpha

FAST Integrated Workflow

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Four easy steps drive workflow automation and standardization to a new level

Step 4. Stay in control and close to your patients

Enhance patient experience and interaction with two front-side and two optional back-side Touch Panels:

This allows all parameters to be set and controlled while staying in touch with the patient

Protocol selection and patient positioning become simpler and more precise

With FAST ECG Check, patient variabilities with ECG impedance and electrode contact are ruled out, allowing for the most accurate ECG signal for each patient

Step 1. Starting with 3D measurement

To help you precisely position your patients, we’ve invented the FAST Integrated Workflow. FAST stands for "Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies". It all starts with a 3D measurement

The FAST 3D Camera captures the patient’s shape, positioning, and height in three dimensions

Using infrared measurement and the time-of-flight (TOF) principle, it even recognizes body contour, which is especially useful when, for example, patients are wearing thick clothes

A patient placed on a CT shown from above illustrating the view of the FAST 3D Camera

Step 2. Calculating with accuracy

Now at the push of a button you can leverage the power of automation for accurate and reproducible positioning. The new “zero-click” solution on the Touch Panels runs three unique AI algorithms simultaneously to support accurate and reproducible positioning:

The body regions in z-direction

The patient’s direction – “head-first versus feet-first” as well as “prone or supine”

The table height and patient thickness

A technician touching the Touch Panels making adjustments within the FAST Integrated Workflow

Step 3a. Automating precision at the touch of a button

Specialized applications support accurate and reproducible positioning:

FAST Isocentering: provides the correct isocenter position, enabling the right dose modulation and consistent images

FAST Range: supports scanning the correct body region with no truncation by aligning the automatically identified anatomical position with the protocol

FAST Direction: helps safeguard the right scan direction, which is crucial when moving the table with infused patients

Step 3b. Automating precision at the touch of a button

Advanced Applications support an even higher throughput and better dose consistency:

FAST Topo: enables faster scan speeds in topograms, which prevents breath-hold artifacts: it also has the potential to decrease the topogram dose

FAST Planning: adapts the scan range to your patient’s anatomy, reducing overscanning and increasing consistency – regardless of who’s operating the system

FAST 3D Align: adapts the reconstruction range to your patient’s anatomy

Step 4. Stay in control and close to your patients

Enhance patient experience and interaction with two front-side and two optional back-side Touch Panels:

This allows all parameters to be set and controlled while staying in touch with the patient

Protocol selection and patient positioning become simpler and more precise

With FAST ECG Check, patient variabilities with ECG impedance and electrode contact are ruled out, allowing for the most accurate ECG signal for each patient

Step 1. Starting with 3D measurement

To help you precisely position your patients, we’ve invented the FAST Integrated Workflow. FAST stands for "Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies". It all starts with a 3D measurement

The FAST 3D Camera captures the patient’s shape, positioning, and height in three dimensions

Using infrared measurement and the time-of-flight (TOF) principle, it even recognizes body contour, which is especially useful when, for example, patients are wearing thick clothes

Step 2. Calculating with accuracy

The body regions in z-direction

The patient’s direction – “head-first versus feet-first” as well as “prone or supine”

The table height and patient thickness

Step 3a. Automating precision at the touch of a button

Specialized applications support accurate and reproducible positioning:

FAST Isocentering: provides the correct isocenter position, enabling the right dose modulation and consistent images

FAST Range: supports scanning the correct body region with no truncation by aligning the automatically identified anatomical position with the protocol

FAST Direction: helps safeguard the right scan direction, which is crucial when moving the table with infused patients

Step 3b. Automating precision at the touch of a button

Advanced Applications support an even higher throughput and better dose consistency:

FAST Topo: enables faster scan speeds in topograms, which prevents breath-hold artifacts: it also has the potential to decrease the topogram dose

FAST Planning: adapts the scan range to your patient’s anatomy, reducing overscanning and increasing consistency – regardless of who’s operating the system

FAST 3D Align: adapts the reconstruction range to your patient’s anatomy

Step 4. Stay in control and close to your patients

Enhance patient experience and interaction with two front-side and two optional back-side Touch Panels:

This allows all parameters to be set and controlled while staying in touch with the patient

Protocol selection and patient positioning become simpler and more precise

With FAST ECG Check, patient variabilities with ECG impedance and electrode contact are ruled out, allowing for the most accurate ECG signal for each patient

Customer experiences

“Regardless of who is operating the system, the patient is always placed at the isocenter of the gantry.”

Emmanuel Agneessens, MD; radiologist at Clinique St Pierre Ottignies

“With our previous system, more than 30 patients a day was a challenge. Today, thanks to the FAST Integrated Workflow, we can easily scale up to 50.”

“The FAST 3D Camera is especially helpful during stressful situations. Thanks to the fully-automated workflow, we can focus on instructing our emergency care colleagues while being close to the patient at all times.”

FAST Integrated Workflow for CT