Siemens Healthcare has launched a new scanner in its Biograph PET/CT line, Biograph mCT 20 Excel, at this week's Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) show in San Antonio.
The new scanner, which features a 20-slice CT component married to a PET unit, is designed for community hospitals and smaller imaging facilities exploring hybrid PET/CT for the first time. The system is capable of scanning protocols such as standard PET time-of-flight imaging, HD-PET for uniform resolution across an entire field-of-view, and HD-Chest for reducing blur created by respiration during PET/CT scans.
Biograph mCT 20 Excel features a 78-cm gantry bore and 500-lb patient table weight limit. Sites that purchase the system can upgrade both the CT and PET components later as their needs change, according to Siemens.