High performance CT for all

Philips MX 16-slice CT configuration

Table of contents
1 Introduction 3 10 Networking 10
10.1 Archiving 10
2 The CT user environment 4 10.2 Filming 10
10.3 DICOM 10
3 Gantry and table 5
3.1 Gantry 5 11 Site planning 11
3.2 AutoVoice 5 11.1 Power requirements 11
3.3 Patient table 5 11.2 Environmental requirements 11
3.4 Accessories 5 11.3 Room layout 11
11.4 Dimensions and weights 11
4 Scan and image acquisition 6
4.1 Generator 6
4.2 X-ray tube 6
4.3 Detector 6
4.4 Image quality 6

5 Scanning modes 7
5.1 Spiral scanning 7
5.2 Axial scanning 7

6 Optional clinical enhancements 7

6.1 Bolus tracking 7
6.2 Spiral Auto Start (SAS) 7

7 Clinical examples 8

8 Dose management 9
8.1 DoseRight ACS (automatic current selection) 9
8.2 DoseRight DOM (dose modulation) 9
8.3 Dedicated pediatric protocols 9
8.4 Dose performance data 9

9 Reconstruction 9
9.1 Reconstruction field of view 9
9.2 Image matrix 9
9.3 Off-line reconstruction 9
9.4 Adaptive filtering 9
9.5 Cone beam reconstruction 9

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1 Introduction
The remarkably easy-to-use MX 16-slice CT scanner is a compact CT system designed to ensure imaging of the highest
quality, patient after patient, time after time. The MX 16-slice CT configuration is ideally suited for general radiology
departments, community hospitals, diagnostic imaging centers and specialty facilities. Designed and manufactured to
provide reliable scanning performance, easy site planning and enhanced workflow operation, the MX 16-slice focuses on
delivering customer value.

The MX 16-slice offers high-quality imaging, fast reconstructions, task automation and an array of features to minimize
radiation doses. The MX 16-slice scanner is available with a 5.0 MHU X-ray tube and 50 kW generator.

The Philips advantage Clinical value

5.0 MHU X-ray tube and 50 kW generator Provides the power and throughput necessary for routine applications
RapidView 6 Delivers up to 6 images per second
Flexible slice acquisition modes, More channels mean faster acquisitions
including 16 x 0.75mm and 16 x 1.5mm
Subsecond 360 o rotation time Faster rotation times mean less susceptibility to motion artifacts
(0.6 sec standard, 0.5 sec optional)
Dynamic Focal Spot (DFS) Rapid deflection of the electron beam effectively doubles the sampling rate
and spatial resolution
DoseWise The Philips system-wide approach to radiation dose management focusing on
lowering patient dose while providing diagnostic image quality
Clinical applications on console Provides standard visualization functions like 2Ds, MPR, MIP, Endo and Volume
Rendering for review or post-processing on the console. Also available as
options on the console are: vessel analysis, brain perfusion, dental planning
and CT reporting.

Console
The MX 16-slice CT combines a
high-performance workstation and
scanner into one convenient, powerful,
and cost-effective multi-slice CT system.
The console runs on a Dell PC with a
monitor (1280 x 1024 Flat Panel LCD).

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2 The CT user environment
The MX 16-slice CT efficiently integrates into the Philips CT family. The MX 16-slice provides a flexible, scalable CT
work environment for planning, scanning, visualization and archiving. Data can easily be sent to an Extended Brilliance
Workspace or Brilliance Workspace Portal.

CT Workspace Extended Brilliance Workspace

Brilliance Workspace Portal

Portal client behind firewall Portal client on VPN, customer network

Radiology Emergency room Physician office PC Home PC

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3 Gantry and table
3.1 Gantry

Feature Specification
X-ray tube and detectors architecture Rotate-rotate
Rotation times 0.5*, 0.6, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2 seconds for full 360° scans
0.33*, 0.4 seconds for partial angle 240° scans
Gantry aperture, mm 700mm
Intercom system Two-way connection between the gantry and console areas
Gantry tilt, degrees -30° to +30° with 0.1° increments
Controls located on gantry (left and right, front and back) Tilt, Couch In/Out, Couch Up/Down, Emergency Stop, X-Ray Indicator
Controls located at operator’s console Tilt, Couch In/Out, Couch Up/Down, Emergency Stop, X-Ray Indicator,
Start Scan, Pause
Focus-detector distance 1040mm
Focus-isocenter distance 570mm
*Optional

3.2 AutoVoice
A standard set of commands for patient • English • Japanese • Danish Customized messages can also be created.
communication before, during, and after • French • Hebrew • Norwegian
scanning is available in the following languages: • Spanish • Arabic • Swedish
• Italian • Russian • Dutch
• German • Turkish
• Chinese • Georgian

3.3 Patient table

Feature Specification
Vertical range, mm 430 to 970mm with 1.0mm increment
Manual longitudinal stroke, mm 1580mm
Scannable range, mm 1500mm
Z-position accuracy ±0.25mm
Longitudinal speed, mm/s 0.1 – 100mm/s
Max load capacity with accuracy, lb 440 lbs (200 kg) with 0.25mm Z-axis accuracy
Floating tabletop Carbon-fiber table top with bilateral foot pedals and button controls for easy
positioning and quick release.

3.4 Accessories

Standard Optional
Patient restraint kit Infant cradle
Elevated head holder Arm rest
Table pad Flat head holder
Cushions and pads Coronal head holder-supine
Table extension

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4 Scan and image acquisition

Feature Specification
4.1 Generator
Output capacity 50 kW
kV 90, 120, 140 kVp
mA 30 – 415 mA; 1 mA increments
4.2 X-ray tube
Anode storage capacity 5.0 MHU
Anode max cooling rate 815 kHU/min
Focal spot (IEC) Large: 1.0mm x 1.3mm
Small: 0.5mm x 1.3mm
Anode diameter 190mm
Anode rotation speed 105 Hz (6300 rpm)
Target angle 7°
Maximum on-time 48 sec @ 415 mA
(@ maximum mA, 120kV, large focal spot)

4.3 Detector
Material Solid-state Gadolinium Oxisulfide (GOS) with 16,128 elements
Dynamic range 1,000,000:1
Slip ring Capacitive – 1.1 Gbps transfer rate
Data sampling rate Up to 4640 views/revolution/element
Slice collimations available 16 x 1.5mm, 16 x 0.75mm, 2 x 0.75mm
Slice thickness (spiral mode) 0.8 – 7.5mm variable
Slice thickness (axial mode) 0.75 – 12mm
Scan angles 240°, 360°
Scan field of view 500mm
4.4 Image quality
Spatial resolution Cut-off 2% 10% 50%
High mode (lp/cm) 15 14 10.5 5.5
Standard mode (lp/cm) 12 11 8.5 4.5
Noise 0.35% [120kVp, 250mAs, 9mm, 250mm FOV, SA filter, 20cm water
equivalent phantom]
Low contrast resolution 4.0mm @ 0.3% [120kVp, 250mAs, 9mm, 250mm FOV, SA filter, 40 mGy at
surface of phantom, CATPHAN phantom]
Absorption range -1024 to +3072 Hounsfield unit

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5 Scanning modes
5.1 Spiral scanning
• Multiple contiguous slices acquired simultaneously with continuous
table movement during scans
• Multiple, bidirectional acquisitions
• Spiral exposure: Up to 100 seconds
• Spiral pitch: 0.5 to 2.0 (user-selectable)

5.2 Axial scanning

• Multiple-slice scan with up to 16 contiguous slices acquired
simultaneously with incremental table movement between scans
• Fused modes for reconstructing partial volume virtually artifact-free
thick slices from thin-slice acquisition

6 Optional clinical
enhancements
6.1 Bolus tracking
An automated injection planning technique to monitor actual contrast
enhancement and initiate scanning at a predetermined level.

6.2 Spiral Auto Start (SAS)

Spiral Auto Start integrates the injector with the scanner, allowing the
technologist to monitor the contrast injection and to start and stop
the scan (with the predetermined delay) while in the scan room.

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7 Clinical examples
Rotation Slice width Scan coverage
Protocol Collimation (sec) Pitch (mm) (mm)
Chest 16 x 1.5 0.75 0.9 2.0 300.0
Brain axial 12 x 1.5 1.5 n/a 4.5 150.0
Aorta CTA 16 x 1.5 0.6 0.7 2.0 300.0
Cervical spine 16 x 0.75 0.75 0.7 1.0 200.0

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8 Dose management 9 Reconstruction

DoseWise is a philosophy, a set of principles and practices Philips RapidView reconstruction generates up to
focused on lowering radiation dose for patients and staff. 6 images per second using a 512 2 matrix.

Philips focuses on system design optimization, current

9.1 Reconstruction field of view
(mA) optimization and increasing dosage awareness to • 50 to 500mm continuous
reduce the cumulative risk of radiation while obtaining
high-quality images. 9.2 Image matrix
• 512 2, 7682 and 1,0242

9.3 Off-line reconstruction

DoseWise features
Off-Line (batch) background image reconstruction of user-defined
8.1 DoseRight ACS (automatic current selection)
groups of raw data files with automatic image storage.
Optimizes the dose for each patient based on the planned scan by
suggesting the lowest possible mAs settings to maintain constant image
9.4 Adaptive filtering
quality at low dose throughout the exam.
Adaptive filters reduce pattern noise (streaks) in non-homogenous
bodies, improving overall image quality.
8.2 DoseRight DOM (dose modulation)
Automatically controls the tube current longitudinally and rotationally,
9.5 Cone beam reconstruction
increasing the signal over areas of higher attenuation to maintain
Adaptive Spiral Tracking Reconstruction Algorithm (ASTR)
constant image noise and decreasing signal over area of less
enables three-dimensional data acquisition and reconstruction in spiral
attenuation to save radiation dose.
scanning.

8.3 Dedicated pediatric protocols

Developed in collaboration with top children's hospitals, Brilliance age
and weight-based infant and pediatric protocols ensure the best clinical
results with minimal dose.

8.4 Dose performance data

Measurement CTDIw dose

Head 16.0 mGy / 100 mAs
Body 8.5 mGy / 100 mAs
Using IEC standard phantoms

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10 Networking
The MX 16-slice CT supports 10/100/1000Mbps
(10/100/1000BaseT) network speeds. For optimal
performance, Philips recommends a minimum of 100Mbps
network speed (1Gbps preferred) and for the CT network
to be segmented from the rest of the hospital network.

10.1 Archiving
The MX 16-slice CT allows full implementation of the DICOM 3.0
communications protocol allows connectivity to DICOM 3.0 compliant
scanners, workstations, and printers.

Type Hard drive DVD CD

Capacity 160GB 4.7GB 700MB
Images1 300,000 7,000 1200
Patients2 1,000 23 4
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512x512 Matrix Uncompressed
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Based on 300 images per study

10.2 Filming
This function allows the user to set up and store filming parameters.
Pre-stored protocols can be set to include auto-filming. The operator
can film immediately after each image, at the end of a series, or film
after the end of a study and review images before printing. Basic
monochrome and color DICOM print capability are supported.

10.3 DICOM
The MX 16-slice CT supports IHE requirements for DICOM
connectivity and can work with DICOM 3.0-compliant scanners,
workstations, and printers.

The MX 16-slice CT includes the following DICOM functionality:

• DICOM print
• Query/Retrieve user and provider
• Storage commitment user
• Removable media

Optional DICOM functionality:

• Modality perform procedure step user
• DICOM modality worklist user

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11 Site planning
Contact the Philips Site Planning department for
specific requirements pertaining to optional imaging/
viewing/power equipment, floor space and electrical,
mechanical, structural or environmental specifications.
11.2 Environmental requirements
Temperature:
Gantry room: 18° to 24° C (64° to 75° F)
Control room: 18° to 28° C (64° to 82° F)
Storage/Transport: -20° to +55° C (-4° F to +131° F)

11.1 Power requirements Humidity:

• 200/208/240/380/400/415/480/500 VAC (with Transformer) Gantry/Control: 30% to 60% non-condensing
50/60 Hz, 75kVA Nominal (65k VA Max Momentary) Storage/Transport: 10% to 90% non-condensing
• Three-phase distribution source

Heat dissipation:
Console Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)* Gantry: 17,075 BTU/hr
Provides up to 30 minutes of backup for console computer, Console Computer: 2,561 BTU/hr
reconstruction and monitors.

11.3 Room layout 4820mm (15'-9 3/4")

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Exam room

3 Isocenter

3430mm (11'-3 1/16")

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4

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This layout represents an example plan

for equipment installation and service
access. National and local codes may
require additional space for electrical
safety and patient access.

11.4 Dimensions and weights

Weight Height Width Depth

1850kg (4078lbs.) 189cm (74.5˝) 221cm (87˝) 89cm (35˝)

1 Gantry
2 343kg (756lbs.) 110cm (43˝) 58cm (28˝) 244cm (96˝)
Patient table
3 150kg (331lbs.) 72cm (28˝) 62cm (24˝) 66cm (26˝)
Computer
8kg (18lbs.) 50cm (20˝) 49cm (19˝) 22cm (9˝)
4 LCD monitor
Optional features

5 Console table 35kg (77lbs.) 74cm (29˝) 140cm (55˝) 70cm (28˝)

6 Transformer 274kg (604lbs.) 71cm (28˝) 55cm (22˝) 52cm (20˝)

7 Console UPS 56kg (123lbs.) 43cm (17˝) 20cm (8˝) 55cm (22˝)

*Optional
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