Siemens previews cardiac CT software

Siemens Medical Solutions introduced syngo Circulation, designed to set a new benchmark in cardiac evaluation software for computed tomography (CT), at Stanford Radiology's 7th Annual International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT, June 15-18 in San Francisco. Syngo Circulation is pending 510(k) review and is not yet commercially available in the U.S, the company said.

Syngo Circulation is a dedicated system for cardiac evaluation, designed to offer fast, robust morphological and functional analysis and reporting in one software application. It is the first of the company's new generation clinical workflow products, Siemens said.

Syngo Circulation was developed in close collaboration with leading cardiac experts. It is designed to easily guide clinicians through cardiac evaluation from automated heart segmentation to coronary vessel segmentation and stenosis quantification to fully automated functional analysis and reporting, in less than 10 minutes.

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