Siemens enhances Syngo DynaCT

Syngo DynaCT can now generate 3D views of the ventricle.

Siemens Medical Solutions has enhanced its Syngo DynaCT Cardiac software, adding the capability to generate three-dimensional displays of the ventricle. Physicians are able to view the 3D object from all sides - even during an intervention such as ablation therapy.

Ablation therapy helps physicians deal with atrial fibrillation, a condition suffered by around 5% of all people over the age of 65. It is vital, however that, electro physiologists can discern the size and shape of the left ventricle in precise detail during the intervention.

During the examination, Syngo DynaCT Cardiac delivers Ctlike slice images of an organ in motion using an angiographic C-arm system. During the intervention, the physician can move the C-arm in a semicircle around the patient and - optionally ECG-triggered - acquire a defined number of projections. As with a CT scanner, these projections are then reconstructed into slice images and a 3D representation, which are sent to the monitor at the angiography system.

Using the software, the electrophysiologist can create clinical acquisitions at the precise moment they are needed - during the intervention. The physician previously had to rely on clinical images taken the day before or during the patient's last visit, usually with a CT or MRI system. However, the state of organs can change continually. Images may be already obsolete the following day, but the physician has to use them as the basis for planning the intervention.

"This is a milestone in the short but very successful history of Syngo DynaCT. Once again, the software has shown its use across a wide range of applications, maintaining its position in interventional radiology and beyond," said Dr. Norbert Gaus, the head of the angiography, fluoroscopy, and radiographic systems division at Siemens Medical Solutions.

Syngo DynaCT Cardiac can be used with Siemens angiography systems with flat detectors.

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