With patients turning into critical consumers, it’s becoming increasingly important to optimize their diagnostic experience in order to stay competitive. Improve patient experience and focus on your patients throughout the CT imaging workflow with SOMATOM go.Up. Stay with patients longer and provide closer care with our unique Mobile Workflow. Benefit from intuitive, AI-powered scan automation and new clinical features that make advanced CT scan procedures like preventive care available for daily practice. And get the image quality and dose reduction technologies you expect from us.
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Features & Benefits
During the CT scan procedure: less time in the control room, more with the patient
In a standard CT imaging work environment, techs spend most of their time in the control room. With the unique Mobile Workflow of SOMATOM go.Up, you can stay close to your patients and put them at ease. See for yourself!
Mobile Workflow – figures tell the story
The Mobile Workflow had a positive impact on the CT scan procedure at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany as well as on the satisfaction of their patients.
- 20% faster patient preparation1)
- 62% increase in positive patient experience1)
- 90% more time spent in the same room with the patient, plus higher freedom of movement for radiologists1)
- 39% increase in patients who feel more satisfied from the medical service they receive1)
“The Mobile Workflow: More than ever, the patient is in the center of the whole examination.”
Clinical Use
Transform care delivery with your new patient pathways
Every patient and clinical indication is different. With its patient pathways, SOMATOM go.Up easily takes you beyond routine CT scan procedures: Expand your clinical portfolio and confidently perform advanced procedures like preventive care, RT planning or cardiac assessment via calcium scoring examinations.
myExam Companion guides you through your thorax examination
Improve patient experience with trendsetting workflows
Patient expectations are increasing and patients are becoming more vocal about their healthcare experience. With the Mobile Workflow of SOMATOM go.Up, your patients feel personally attended to and experience their treatment more positively.
myExam Companion: Intelligence that works with you
myExam Companion launches the era of intelligent imaging. Using the new possibilities of digitalization, it turns data into built-in expertise. This helps users efficiently achieve reproducible CT scan results – by unlocking your modality’s full potential automatically.
myExam Companion guides users through any CT scan procedure, so they can interact easily and naturally with both patient and technology. No matter the user, patient or throughput, it helps generate consistently excellent results – and improve diagnostic confidence.
Mobile Workflow: A new working experience
With the Mobile Workflow of SOMATOM go.Up, your patients feel personally attended to and experience their treatment more positively. From the tablet to the remote control, gantry-mounted injector arm, camera, and the gentle voice and sound design: The CT scanner offers smart solutions that help you focus on each patient – and make your working experience enjoyable.
See it with your own eyes
Whether routine CT imaging like lung cancer screening and angiography or more complex exams: Equipped with premium technologies, SOMATOM go.Up delivers excellent image quality ‒ always on.
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Low-dose lung imaging for nodule visualization
Courtesy of Erlangen University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany
- Thick-slice MIP and coronal and sagittal MPR
- Tube voltage: 110 kV + Tin Filter
- CTDIvol: 1.28 mGy
Courtesy of Erlangen University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany
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Are you interested in more clinical cases? We created a booklet that contains a collection of different cases and clinical images – all acquired with SOMATOM go.Up.
Technical Specifications
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1
Wetzl et al., Mobile Workflow in Computed Tomography of the Chest, Journal of Medical Systems:43, November 2018.
2
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.