Siemens Medical Solutions unveils new PET-CT line debuting at RSNA 2003

Siemens Medical Solutions this week launched a new biograph line of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) systems.

 The release comes as the company prepares for this year's 88th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Nov. 30 through Dec. 5 in Chicago.

 The new biograph PET/CT line will incorporate options to enhance image quality, resolution and throughput, as well as new information technology (IT) products for multimodality integration.

 New features include a high-resolution PET option, an image quality enhancement, a six-slice CT biograph counterpart to Siemens' current two- and 16-slice configurations, and further integration into the Siemens Leonardo post-processing IT workplace.

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