Siemens Healthineers has deployed a mobile stroke unit that features its Somatom On.site head CT scanner.
The mobile stroke Unit features the Somatom On.site head CT scanner.Siemens Healthineers
The company unveiled the mobile units in February at the American Heart Association’s 2025 International Stroke Conference, with the first deployment at UCLA Health of Southern California. The scanner features a new digital platform called Stroke Connect, which allows hospital physicians to assess clinical patient data remotely and in advance of presentation at the hospital. This can reduce time-to-treatment by about 30 minutes compared with conventional pathways, the company noted.
The Somatom On.site scanner won the Minnies award for Best New Radiology Device in 2020.
![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)
