Siemens Healthineers has received regulatory approval to market its Symbia Intevo Bold SPECT/CT system in Canada.
First launched at the 2017 edition of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) conference, Symbia Intevo Bold is designed for a range of clinical applications in a dual-use setting much like PET/CT. It features as an option the company's sinogram-affirmed iterative reconstruction (SAFIRE) algorithm for enhanced CT image quality and image reconstruction, which can reduce patient radiation dose by as much as 60%, according to the company.
The system also includes the company's iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) algorithm designed to reduce artifacts caused by metallic materials such as orthopedic and dental implants. In addition, an optional feature called interleaved volume reconstruction (IVR) reconstructs overlapping CT images up to 32 slices to extract the maximum amount of diagnostic information from measured data, enabling the evaluation of small structures such as lesions or fractures.
Symbia Intevo Bold also has a single-source dual-energy capability that uses two sequential spiral CT scans operating at different kV levels to combine tissue information with disease morphology, improving image quality. Postprocessing applications available with Siemens' syngo dual-energy software include monoenergetic, calculi characterization, and gout.
