Revolutionizing Diagnostic Imaging with NewTom 7G Dual Energy Technology
As of today, NewTom 7G integrates the Dual Energy (DE) system, resulting in even greater performance through the use of two different radiant energies that acquire two sets of images of the same anatomical area. The result of a continuous quest for patient wellbeing and ever-greater diagnostic precision, Dual Energy uses two different radiant energies to identify any pathologies with greater clarity and precision.
Reconstruction of the information from the low and high energies is instantaneous. The special DE software developed by NewTom allows real-time selection of energy levels during display. This means you can access a vast spectrum of information, making pathology detection more effective and reliable. Particularly effective, therefore, for obtaining superior quality visualisation of cortical bone, trabecular bone and significantly better quality soft tissue images, Dual Energy is also capable to mitigates beam-hardening artifacts, are a recurring problem in tomography which makes difficult to make a diagniosis. By being able to reconstruct virtual monochromatic images at several keV levels, Dual Energy improves soft tissue visualisation, reduces metal artifacts and provides a basis for tissue characterisation for unparalleled image quality.
NewTom’s Dual Energy software enables users to perform semi-automatic tissue segmentation and the application of colour-coded images streamlining the differentiation of materials within the scanned area.This allows rapid and straightforward detection of potential pathologies. Quantitative tests have demonstrated that Dual Energy protocols improve – compared to single-energy CBCT exams – HU accuracy, contrast resolution and image homogeneity. One of the causes of image quality decay is the appearance of artifacts caused by patient movement. NewTom has developed an algorithm that corrects any movement induced distortions. It does this on each axis, offsetting any shifts, rotations or variations in distance from the panel. The result is uncompromising quality. So, the new features enable weighted blending of high- and low-energy imaging. The resulting images combine the low noise, typical of high-energy acquisition, with the high contrast resolution of the low-energy image set.
Dual Energy: Precision Redefined
NewTom’s Dual Energy technology provides unique clinical information that lets you highlight, characterise, quantify and distinguish tissues, which have different sensitivities to different energy levels, of the areas being scanned, thereby obtaining more information about the chemical composition of the materials in the area being examined.
