Hello! I'm Beth Klein, Vice President and Global General Manager for Functional Imaging at GE Medical Systems. Welcome to the 48th annual Society of Nuclear Medicine show.
In recent years, Functional Imaging has moved to the forefront of diagnostic imaging procedures. This year, GE Medical Systems will be showcasing many exciting advances in both Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography.
For years, physicians have told us about the benefits of fusing CT and PET images for improving patient diagnostic outcomes. Until now, that usually required additional imaging time, separate patient positioning and painstaking image registration from two different scanners.
Today, GE is the first and only company to offer an entire line of combined PET/CT products that enables physicians to see and treat cancer more effectively than ever before.
The GE Discovery LS(tm) is our new, state-of-the-art PET/CT system that delivers a true hybrid image in 1/2 the time of traditional PET scanners, without repositioning the patient. Discovery LS combines the most sophisticated CT scanner available today, the GE LightSpeed(tm) Plus, with the most advanced PET system, the GE Advance NXi(tm). For patients who are suspected of having cancer, the GE Discovery LS allows doctors to see significantly more information about both the extent and location of the disease. Medical professionals can then determine the best course of treatment to help increase a patient's chances of survival.
If radiation or surgical therapy is necessary, physicians will be able to more effectively target treatments and more rapidly evaluate their effectiveness. This in turn should lead to improved outcomes, shorter hospital stays, and better, overall patient care.
Also on display in the GE Medical Systems booth will be an exciting works-in-progress: the Discovery VI, formerly known as the POSiTRACE PET-CT system that GE obtained as part of the acquisition of S-M-V last year. The Discovery VI offers all of the advantages of fused PET-CT imaging in a more compact system.
To fill out the most comprehensive portfolio available in the marketplace, we are introducing the Discovery VH, our SPECT/PET/CT hybrid imaging system. For SPECT/PET hybrid imaging, we are using our unique implementation of a 1" Starbright" crystal, an innovation that brings you high-energy resolution without compromising low energy sensitivity in combination with CT Attenuation correction.
For the optimal Cardiac Attenuation Correction, we are introducing the industry's only integrated spect/CT system, Hawkeye, which provides the best Nuclear Cardiology imaging capability available today.
Also on display, will be our POWERstation and eNTEGRA workstations that offer unprecedented speed, flexibility and departmental connectivity.
Above all, you will have the opportunity to speak with many physicians who have been performing groundbreaking research using PET-CT technology to improve diagnostic confidence and patient outcomes.
I hope that you will take the time to stop by our booth, and discover a whole new world of functional imaging. I look forward to seeing you in Toronto... enjoy the show!
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