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SOMATOM Force

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. And 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

SOMATOM Force
    SOMATOM Force interactive brochure
    Discover our interactive SOMATOM Force brochure.

    Download our digital product brochure

    Discover the interactive SOMATOM Force brochure. It offers a wealth of information about our CT scanner and interactive content, including image galleries and movies.1 The digital brochure is available as both iPDF and ePUB format.

    • Enjoy the SOMATOM Force interactive brochure on your desktop computer or on the go, using your laptop, tablet, smartphone, or dedicated e-reader device.
    • The iPDF requires the free Acrobat Reader. The ePUB file can be opened with an e-book reader, a reader app, a Mac computer, or an iPhone.
    • You can download the interactive brochure for offline reading.
    • Please note: Because the iPDF has 367.7 MB and the ePUB 380 MB, the download can take up to a few minutes (depending on your Internet connection).

     1Internet connection is required to view the linked movies.

     

    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 VectronTM 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

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    occult ruptured aneurysm

    Emergency case of occult ruptured aneurysm

    • Scan time: 16.62 s
    • Scan length: 742 mm
    • 100/Sn150 kV
    • CTDIvol: 8.77 mGy
    • DLP: 642.2 mGy cm

    Dual Source Dual Energy (DSDE) CT enables fast whole-body imaging at low radiation dose levels, also suitable in emergency cases as shown in this case of an occult ruptured aneurysm. Improved evaluation with contrast enhanced DSDE.

    Courtesy of University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
    1Requires license syngo.via Cinematic VRT.
    occult ruptured aneurysm
    Left iliac artery stenosis and right fibular artery occlusion
    Free-breathing lung scans
    Inner ear examination
    Aortic dissection
    Turbo Flash cardiac imaging
    Dynamic angiography
    ECG triggered Turbo Flash scan of coronary, carotid and cerebral arteries
    Infant after foreign body aspiration
    Free-breathing thoracic CT with aortic coarctation
    Heart scan for analysis of cardiac anomaly
    Abdominal CT with suspicious lesions in the liver
    Dual Energy evaluation of pulmonary embolism and lung perfusion
    Extended dynamic imaging of peripheral vessels
    Volume perfusion of liver lesion for work-up
    Dynamic myocardial stress perfusion to look for effect of stenosis
    DE bypass cardiac CT scan
    Dual Energy thorax and abdomen incl. spine for post trauma evaluation
    CT thorax to follow-up bilateral pneumonia
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    Dynamic myocardial perfusion

    Watch Koen Nieman, MD PhD, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and learn how to do a dynamic myocardial perfusion

    Technical Specifications

    X-ray tubes

    2 x VectronTM X-ray tubes

    Detectors

    2 x StellarInfinity detectors with anti-scatter 3D collimator grid

    Number of acquired slices

    384 (2 × 192) slices

    Rotation time

    up to 0.25 s1

    Temporal resolution

    up to 66 ms1

    Generator power

    240 kW (2 x 120 kW)

    kV settings

    70 – 150 kV, in steps of 10 kV

    Spatial resolution

    0.24 mm1

    Max. scan speed

    737 mm/s1 with Turbo Flash

    Table load

    up to 307 kg/676 lbs1

    Gantry opening

    78 cm

    1Option

    Further optional highlights: FAST Integrated Workflow, FAST 3D Camera, iMAR, Dual Energy and Adaptive 4D Spiral (up to 80 cm for dynamic angio)