Siemens Healthineers is highlighting technology that increases early lung cancer diagnoses at the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) being held in Barcelona, Spain.
The technology was developed in collaboration with Intuitive Imaging Informatics and combines Ion robotic bronchoscopy with Cios Spin, a mobile C-arm that uses conebeam CT (CBCT) to generate three-dimensional CT-like images, the company said.
It is being used at the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland and has led to a 291% increase in stage 1A lung cancer diagnoses, as well as a 69% increase in overall diagnoses of the disease and a diagnostic performance rate of 89%, according to Siemens.
![Axial images from unenhanced calcium score cardiac CT (left) and curved planar reformation images from CT angiography (right) show that higher long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with greater coronary artery calcium and more obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Top row: Images in a 68-year-old male patient with higher 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (7.9 μg/m3 for particulate matter measuring ≤2.5 μm in diameter [PM2.5] and 17.4 parts per billion [ppb] for NO2) with extensive CAD (coronary artery calcium score [CACS] >1,000 and obstructive CAD [≥70% diameter stenosis]). Bottom row: Images in a 57-year-old female patient with lower 10-year mean ambient air pollution exposure (6.3 μg/m3 for PM2.5 and 4.6 ppb for NO2) with no CAD (CACS = 0 and no obstructive stenosis).](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/06/hanneman.r6SMLzkezo.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
