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Brilliance iCT Technical Backgrounder
Brilliance iCT Technical Backgrounder
An integral part of Philips range of healthcare solutions, Philips’ CT family of products are
designed to work with and alongside other Philips Medical Systems technologies and offerings to
better enable customers to intensely focus on the patient throughout the entire care cycle. Philips
offers a full range of solutions through its Brilliance and MX CT product lines.
Brilliance CT with Essence technology is a more intelligent form of CT. Providing the optimal
combination of x-ray tube, detector and reconstruction technology, Essence technology powers
the new Brilliance 64-channel scanners as well as the new Brilliance iCT. The new Brilliance 64
with Essence technology is the latest in advanced, premium 64-channel scanners for all routine
radiological imaging including cardiac CT. Brilliance iCT offers 256 slices and unprecedented
speed, x-ray tube power, coverage and dose utility. Brilliance iCT sets the benchmark for
advanced cardiovascular imaging while simultaneously improving diagnostic accuracy and
lowering dose in all exams.
Brilliance Everywhere
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generated by large volume acquisitions, while speeding the “time to diagnosis.”
Brilliance Everywhere utilizes thin-client technology to turn any PC on a hospital’s network into
an advanced visualization workstation. Simplified collaboration with clinicians throughout the
care cycle is now as close as the nearest computer.
The solution also reduces virtual colonoscopy read times for physicians. A September 2007
article in the journal Radiology found that Philips’ Perspective Filet View delivered read times of
only nine minutes compared nearly 25 minutes as highlighted in a recent presentation of virtual
colonoscopy clinical trial data from the American College of Radiology Imaging Network
(ACRIN). The Perspective Filet View technology also delivers a 420-degree circular view of the
colon at any given point along an automatically calculated centerline through all colon segments.
Spectral CT
At RSNA, Philips will provide a look into the future of CT: Spectral imaging. Results from over
1,000 clinical exams, on the Company’s exclusive dual-layer detector prototype, uncover the
potential breakthroughs enabled by simultaneous, multi-energy detection. Complementing these
clinical investigations, laboratory results from Philips’ advanced photon-counting prototype will
be on display. In the hands of a global network of over 15 Spectral CT researcher sites,
Philips is leading the way in this important area of fundamental CT research.