Seimens Healthineers’s SOMATOM CT system gains FDA clearance
In an April 18 company release, Siemens Healthineers announced FDA approval for its COMATOM go.All and SOMATOM go.Top CT systems.
The 64-slice SOMATOM go.All has a 0.33-second rotation time, a Stellar detector and 75 kW generator. The 128-slice SOMATOM go.Top also has a large detector to deliver an acquisition speed up to 175 millimeters in a second.
“With the FDA clearance of the SOMATOM go.All and SOMATOM go.Top, Siemens Healthineers offers a comprehensive, user-designed suite of cost-effective CT scanners to perform a wide range of clinical tasks, from routine procedures to advanced clinical applications,” said Douglas Ryan, Vice President of Computed Tomography at Siemens Healthineers North America. “With its revolutionary changes to workflow and reliability, our SOMATOM go. CT platform is transforming care delivery, helping healthcare providers realize CT’s full potential to deliver high-quality imaging examinations while also reducing total cost of ownership.”
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