SOMATOM Sessions - Siemens Healthcare

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Affordable Performance
in 16- and 64-slice CT
At the European Congress of Radiology in March 2010, Siemens
introduced new 16- and 64-slice systems to the market: The SOMATOM
Emotion Excel Edition and the SOMATOM Defi nition AS Excel Edition.
By Jan Freund, Steven Bell and Rami Kusama, Business Unit CT, Siemens Healthcare, Forchheim, Germany
The new Excel Editions from Siemens
are especially cost-effective versions
of the SOMATOM Emotion 16-slice and
SOMATOM Definition AS 64-slice scanners.
The Excel Edition is the result of
Siemens’ commitment to developments
that bring new technology to more
people through reducing the costs of
these innovations. These new additions
to the Emotion and Definition AS families
offer customers access to 16-slice
and 64-slice Siemens technology in
scanners that include many of the advantages
that existing Emotion and
Definition AS customers know, at a
significantly more advantageous price.
On the one side, the SOMATOM Emotion
Excel Edition is especially designed to
make it easier for small and medium-sized
hospitals and practices to enter the
world of 16-slice computed tomography.
It continues the success story of the
Emotion platform that remains the most
popular CT in the world.
The success of the SOMATOM Emotion
platform to date has been due to superb
image quality, a simplified and efficient
workflow, and the ability to save money
over the life of the CT system. To date,
there are around 7000 systems installed
worldwide. The 16-slice SOMATOM
Emotion Excel Edition builds on the prior
success of this imaging platform to bring
these advantages to more customers
and patients. It offers the smallest focalspot
size and a high number of effective
16 SOMATOM Sessions · May 2010 · www.siemens.com/healthcare-magazine
The new Excel Editions from Siemens are especially affordable versions of the SOMATOM Emotion
16-slice and SOMATOM Definition AS 64-slice scanners.