CARE+CLEARMigliorare la qualità delle immagini, ottimizzazione della dose in ogni sistema Artis.

CARE
As a leader in healthcare innovation, Siemens has a strong legacy in dose-reducing technologies. For many years we have been focused on reducing dose without compromising image quality and clinical outcomes. The philosophy behind our Combined Applications to Reduce Exposure (CARE) is simple: They are designed to help you deliver better care at the lowest reasonable dose. These cutting-edge radiation protection functions are designed to reduce radiation dosage for both patient and clinical staff to make dose monitoring and reporting easy and structured for the hospital.

• Reduces patient and operator dose to a minimum
• Provides dose monitoring during the procedure
• Makes dose reporting easy and structured
• The complete CARE package is standard with every Artis system

Advanced dose-saving technologies effectively reduce radiation dose for patient and operator.

• Reduced operator exposure
• Reduced patient exposure
• Improves hospital marketing capabilities
• Addresses a broader patient mix: dose-sensitive patients (e.g. children)
• Read more about our dose-saving applications.

With the dose-monitoring features, patient entrance dose** control becomes easy and efficient.

• Better control of accumulated patient entrance dose**
• Enhanced in-house dose reporting
• Enhanced transparency regarding dose per case
• Prepared for future standards, easier to meet required dose levels

Read more about our dose-saving applications.

State-of-the art reporting solutions enable efficient and transparent reporting and documentation of radiation dose.

• Better patient dose exposure control and greater transparency
• Advanced knowledge of when a report has to be written
• Be at the ready when legal authorities ask for dose per case
• Prepared for future standards

Read more about our dose reporting applications.

CLEAR
Whether your patients are tall or short, obese or slender – you need to see. And in order to see, you need optimal image quality that helps you make the right decision for the patient. Our comprehensive range of CLEAR applications automatically enhances image quality and thus helps increase certainty during interventions without increasing the dose.

• Achieves optimized image quality
• Applies comprehensive image processing
• Customizes the image display to preferences
• The CLEAR package is standard with every Artis system

Advanced image acquisition features like a high-power X-ray tube and optimized brightness achieve excellent contrast when imaging obese patients and avoid overexposures.
Read more about our dose reporting applications.

Our features provide the entire range of real-time postprocessing tools needed to optimize the contrast and sharpness of the image without increasing the dose. Read more about our dose reporting applications.

Every interventionalist has his/her own preference when it comes to image quality. Some like sharper images, some smoother. With the image presets, you can choose.

Customer Experiences

P. Vierbeck, A. Funk, H. Galluhn, R. Kügler, Endoscopy Technicians
Klinikum Altenburger Land, Altenburg

“Low-dose protocols in endoscopy and ERCP are very significant. We often use protocols at 0.81 μGy/image in 22 cm format (corresponding to 0.41 μGy/image in 48 cm format) and always pulsed fluoroscopy (CAREvision).”
“Adjustment of radiographic image possible without radiation exposure, ‘Super!’ (CAREprofile and CAREposition)” 

Klinikum Altenburger Land, Altenburg

“Using CLEAR technology, the system allows for working with the lowest possible amounts of contrast agent with simultaneously high detail recognition of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the pancreaticobiliary ductal system. At the same time the optimized gray scale resolution ensures safe positioning of implants in stenoses of the gastrointestinal tract through certain detection of the stent and its markers.”

Heinrich-Braun-Krankenhaus GmbH, Kirchberg

“An important aspect in gastroenterology is a non-overexposed fluoroscopy image reproduced 1:1 in the digital image.”

Klinikum Augsburg

"Manufacturers must look after the safety of both patients and medical staff. This type of safety system can determine whether or not a device is selected, which means that manufacturers must treat them as a quality criterion rather than offering them for an additional charge. Who would drive an automobile today without a seatbelt and an airbag?"

"We should be concerned about everyone’s well-being. And if we can generate better images using less radiation, then it makes sense for us to do so."

Vivantes Hospital Berlin

"I consider minimizing radiological exposure for the intervention personnel to be a matter of key concern. In this connection, progress in the area of device technology must be supplemented by observance of radiological protection measures by the staff."

Sana Klinikum, Berlin

"These days, when we have a better understanding of the connections between radiology dose and potential illness than we did previously, I think that features that enable us to reduce the dose of radiation should be provided as a matter of course. There should not even be the possibility of choosing differently just to cut costs."

"Protecting employees as part of our ‘constant activity’ in the cardiac catheterization laboratory cannot be rated highly enough."

"If I were buying a catheterization unit I would classify radiological dose-reduction features as a fixture, if the case arose. All other options depend on financial and medical necessity and can still be negotiated, unlike radiological protection."

Stony Brook Medical Center, New York

„syngo DynaCT and the integrated CARE feature make the task of keeping the dose low virtually effortless“

Coburg Clinic, Coburg

“New image algorithms from recent updates deliver the best images we have ever seen.”

“Today images show a very homogenous contrast distribution, sharp vessel edges, and minimal background noise. Siemens has done a great job with image processing enhancements.”

Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara

“By adjusting the fluoroscopy quality and changing the pulse rate, we can reduce the radiation dose by up to 72 percent. This is the same for syngo DynaCT applications.” “… Artis zee applications like CAREvision, CAREprofile, CAREfilter, CAREposition,and low-dose syngo DynaCT have greatly improved dose reduction and made it adjustable according to the neurointerventional procedure’s need.“