Toshiba America Medical Systems has unveiled Aquilion Lighting 80, an 80-detector-row CT scanner aimed at the midtier market.
Designed for full-body imaging and routine volumetric scanning, Lightning 80 delivers reconstruction speeds of up to 50 images per second at full resolution, according to the firm. Offering 0.5-mm slices and a 78-cm bore, the system includes Toshiba's Advanced Diagnostic technology, such as single-energy metal artifact reduction (SEMAR) and SureSubtraction, the firm said.
Toshiba said the scanner can also be reconfigured from 40 to 80 to 160 slices without replacing hardware. In addition, Lightning 80 features Toshiba's adaptive iterative dose reduction (AIDR) 3D Enhanced radiation dose reduction protocol and the company's PureVision CT detector.
![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)
