Toshiba America Medical Systems has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Aquilion Prime CT scanner.
Prime features double-slice technology and Toshiba's coneXact reconstruction algorithm, allowing for generation of 160 unique slices per rotation, according to the vendor. The scanner is targeted for facilities that need to perform a wide variety of advanced clinical exams and produce high-quality images with reduced radiation exposure.
Prime includes an 80-row, 0.5-mm detector; a 7.5-million-heat-unit (MHU) large-capacity x-ray tube; and 0.35-sec gantry rotation speed, Toshiba said. It also has a 78-cm aperture gantry and a couch with a patient-weight capacity of 660 lb.
The company's adaptive iterative dose reduction (AIDR) and NEMA XR 25 dose-check software are standard features on Prime.
![Images show the pectoralis muscles of a healthy male individual who never smoked (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared], 28.4; number of cigarette pack-years, 0; forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 97.6% predicted; FEV1: forced vital capacity [FVC] ratio, 0.71; pectoralis muscle area [PMA], 59.4 cm2; pectoralis muscle volume [PMV], 764 cm3) and a male individual with a smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; BMI, 27.5; number of cigarette pack-years, 43.2, FEV1, 48% predicted; FEV1:FVC, 0.56; PMA, 35 cm2; PMV, 480.8 cm3) from the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (i.e., CanCOLD) study. The CT image is shown in the axial plane. The PMV is automatically extracted using the developed deep learning model and overlayed onto the lungs for visual clarity.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/03/genkin.25LqljVF0y.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=focalpoint&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)