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SmartScore 4.0
Coronary Artery Calcification Scoring
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SmartScore 4.0
Calcium Scoring with SmartScore 4.0
SmartScore 4.0 is a non-invasive option for measuring and reporting coronary artery calcification scores. Currently there are two methods of acquiring EKG gated calcium scored images, which are both available on the LightSpeed:
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Retrospective Gating |
- Activates X-ray only during heart’s diastolic phase
- Less dose to the patient
- Less images to reconstruct
- Improves Productivity
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- Provides flexibility to choose the best image for scoring
- Advantageous for variable or inconsistent heart rates
- Saves works-in-progress
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Processing with SmartScore
When the scan has been completed and transferred to the Advantage Windows Workstation, use SmartScore 4.0 to process the coronary images by selecting and scoring the images via the user-friendly interface.
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Image Scoring |
- Easy point-and-click image selection
- Quick comparison modet
- Cine Loop Display
- EKG Waveform image mapping
- Save Work-In-Progress
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- Color coated artery mapping
- Single mouse click to color highlight calcium deposits
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Scoring with SmartScore
Scoring of the selected images/ROIs is divided into three steps; extracting intensity histograms for each image/region, computing image/region scores based on particular scoring procedures, and combining region scores for individual images into composite scores using slice-thickness weighting. This scoring method has been validated and compared to EBCT by our clinical customers.
SmartScore 4.0 software displays the calcium score in the following form:
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Total calcium score
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Individual coronary artery score
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Individual slice calcium score
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Reporting (New Report) with SmartScore
SmartScore 4.0 offers integrated, customizable patient reports to be printed in color or black / white.
Features:
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Hospital/Clinic Logo
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Patient Demographics
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Cardiac History
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Physician's message about the exam
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Percentile ranking
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Editable calcium score category table
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Heart Diagram
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Printed images demonstrating calcium
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Save report to diskette, read on internet browser
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