Revolution Apex

Revolution Apex™ is a new ultra-premium CT system designed and engineered to provide you with a new way to your best image for every patient. Because of the inherently complex technological make-up of CT, every provider has their own “take” on how to get the best image quality.
This fragmentation across the industry can sometimes be confusing for those who want the best CT. With Revolution Apex, we’ve made this choice clear. By combining a powerful new imaging chain with TrueFidelity™ Images created using Deep Learning Image Reconstruction, it’s built on a platform that provides you with uncompromised access to all that CT has to offer. Revolution Apex is the first CT engineered to empower you to determine how you get the best image quality for your patients.

Image quality makes all the difference


Over the years, our CT engineering team has helped solve some of CT’s biggest challenges, such as lowering dose and expanding CT capabilities for challenging patients. Our dedication to very specific clinical solutions like these has helped make CT the important imaging technology that it is today. However, above all else, the purpose of every CT we build is to deliver undoubtable image quality. To prove our continued leadership in image quality, we created Revolution Apex. A system built on a limitless platform with uncompromised clinical solutions to help set a new benchmark in image quality.

A limitless platform for now and the future

Five years ago, we set out to completely rethink CT with the engineering philosophy that every component of CT is equally important and should be able to work together without compromise. Revolution CT was the important first step. For the first time in the history of CT, it provided all of the essential components of CT in one CT. It was a truly uncompromised imaging solution. Revolution Apex takes this visionary approach one step further with a powerful new imaging chain. It’s a CT platform with the limitless performance you need to achieve the best image quality for every patient, both now and in the future.

An elegantly practical design

Every aspect of Revolution Apex is centered around the idea of keeping image quality at the forefront. Including its industrial design. The toned-down lighting highlights key interaction points to help with visibility and a simple grey circle draws your eye to the outermost edge of the bore, making the bore appear even larger to all of your patients. The goal was to craft a CT that embodies a sophisticated elegance that is both simple and highly practical, everything an ultra-premium CT should be.
Quantix™ 160 Tube

Taking CT to the next power

The power of the newly engineered Quantix 160 Tube is the result of three key technological achievements. At its core, is a liquid metal bearing construction optimally designed to withstand 75 G of G-force. It also includes a new flat emitter cathode design capable of achieving 1300 mA with 16 cm of coverage and an ultra-high power reserve that enables low kVp, high resolution and GSI scanning. As the most powerful whole-organ coverage tube in the industry, the clinical impact of this new tube goes far beyond simply providing more power. It provides the resources necessary to improve every clinical outcome.


TrueFidelity Images

A futuristic take on classic image reconstruction

For years, low dose was the benchmark for image quality by which every CT image was held. We helped set the standard for low-dose imaging back in 2008 with an iterative reconstruction technology capable of lowering dose by 50 percent. Over the years, the benchmark has changed. While dose is still important, radiologists are looking for an image texture reminiscent of the text-book quality images they studied in medical school. To that end, we’ve introduced Deep Learning Image Reconstruction, what we feel is the future of image quality. It uses artificial intelligence to combine the low dose of iterative reconstruction with a “classic-looking” image texture.


With great power comes great image quality

With Revolution CT, we solved one of the biggest challenges of CT technology with a platform that provided uncompromised access to all four core imaging attributes. It was the first time you could have a system that didn’t force you to choose between temporal resolution, spectral imaging, spatial resolution and coverage. You could have them all. Revolution Apex builds off this “uncompromised” imaging approach with the Quantix 160 Tube and Deep Learning Iterative Reconstruction, which together, supercharge all four key CT imaging attributes to deliver great image quality.
Introducing Smart Subscription*

A CT that keeps getting better

Everyone wants to own the latest and greatest technology. Nowhere is this more true than in healthcare where your patients look to you to provide the latest insight medicine has to offer. In a world where businesses never stop innovating, it can seem nearly impossible to keep up. We’ve also heard you voice your frustration with slow budgetary processes that make this even more challenging. In recent years, we’ve watched one consumer industry after another switch to a subscription-based approach and it inspired us to rethink the traditional “buy, use, replace” acquisition model for CT. And that’s exactly what we did. We’re calling it Smart Subscription. Not only does it automatically update your CT with the latest applications, it updates every CT in your fleet so that every system has the same capabilities. Now, no matter when you buy your CT, you can expect it to be as good as new for as long as you have it.

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The benchmark of image quality for every image

Elevate every image to a powerful first impression

Historically, there has never been one way to the best image in CT. Administrators and radiologists have had to make important decisions about what CT technology to purchase and how to use it for each patient. With Revolution Apex, that’s no longer the case. With the best of every key CT imaging attribute, every image is an opportunity to make a powerful first impression. 
  • “Excellent CNR, lesion delineation, with improved texture and no plastic appearance in the image.”

    “Excellent CNR, lesion delineation, with improved texture and no plastic appearance in the image.”

    Naveen Kulkarni,
    MD Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

  • “Reduced noise in deep learning cardiac imaging allows for reduction in kVp while maintaining image quality.”

    “Reduced noise in deep learning cardiac imaging allows for reduction in kVp while maintaining image quality.”

    Dhiraj Baruah,
    MD Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

  • Runoff at 80 kV for enhanced vessel visualization.

    Runoff at 80 kV for enhanced vessel visualization.

  • Non-contrast chest CT with clear depiction of lung collapse with fibrosis and infection.

    Non-contrast chest CT with clear depiction of lung collapse with fibrosis and infection.

     
  • “This is what a head CT image should look like and never did, even in the high dose era. Less noise, fewer artifacts and a pleasure to interpret.”

    “This is what a head CT image should look like and never did, even in the high dose era. Less noise, fewer artifacts and a pleasure to interpret.”

    Lawrence N. Tanenbaum,
    MD FACR RadNet

  • CTA Chest Aortic stenosis at 70 kV and 13 mL of contrast for a 3 year old.

    CTA Chest Aortic stenosis at 70 kV and 13 mL of contrast for a 3 year old.

Premium clinical solutions for challenging clinical cases

The best image quality for every patient

The true testament of CT engineering is to make something work beyond the ideal patient under ideal circumstances. Accomplishing this requires a CT designed with software and hardware that truly works together. Take a patient that presents with atrial fibrillation as an example. By monitoring the ECG to identify and communicate the best heart beat and the best phase to image, Revolution Apex is able to provide challenging patients like this with unlimited one-beat studies in HD. This first-of-its-kind clinical solution is just one of many examples of how Revolution Apex provides the best image quality not just for the ideal patient, but for every patient. 
  • 1-beat cardiac. At any heart rate.

    1-beat cardiac. At any heart rate.

    1-beat CCTA at 80 kV on a patient with 95 BPM heart rate.

  • CT TAVI Planning. Even for patients with renal insufficiency.

    CT TAVI Planning. Even for patients with renal insufficiency.

    70 kV TAVI with 67 mL of contrast (patient eGFR 44).

  • Uncompromised image quality. Even for over-obese patients.

    Uncompromised image quality. Even for over-obese patients.

    62 BMI patient reconstructed at 0.625 mm.

  • Low-dose chest CT. Within one second.

    Low-dose chest CT. Within one second.

    70 kV chest CT complete in 0.6 seconds with 33 mL of contrast.

  • Metal artifact reduction. Both in single energy and dual energy.

    Metal artifact reduction. Both in single energy and dual energy.

    Bone VCAR and Smart MAR for automatic spine labeling and metal artifact reduction.

  • Ultra-low dose screening. Without compromising on detail.

    Ultra-low dose screening. Without compromising on detail.

    Lung cancer screening at 0.6 mSv with Thoracic VCAR to highlight hypo-perfused areas.

You lead the way

As a radiologist, your job is to lead the way. Patients and referring physicians alike look to you to provide them with the direction they need to determine the best course of care. Our goal is to provide you with every tool imaginable to lead the way regardless of what your specialty is or the types of patients you see. With a CT capable of delivering the best image quality for every patient, your leadership can reach even further. It not only provides you with greater confidence in your ability to serve the patients you already see today, it gives you the tools you need to serve more patients with even greater clinical challenges.