Accurate body tumor staging – with Computed Tomography

When staging a tumor, it is important to determine the presence of additional tumors and potential malignancies throughout the body. For this, it is important to have outstanding image quality with high spatial resolution and optimum coverage.

SOMATOM® Definition AS, the world’s first Adaptive Scanner, is a fundamentally new way to use single-source CT, provides a new way to use single source CT. Imagine a CT scanner that truly adapts to your patients and your clinical questions – making it an expert in virtually any clinical field. Opening up new worlds of clinical and economic possibilities. Increasing the quality and efficiency of patient care. And thus making the SOMATOM Definition AS the ideal scanner for everyday tumor staging.

Our software syngo CT Oncology provides unrivaled diagnostic confidence for routine tumor staging – especially for the evaluation of tumors in typical locations such as in the lung, liver or lymph nodes. Dedicated autopilots automate tumor segmentation and measurement, enabling robust calculation of the tumor size, including besides the standards RECIST (1.0) and WHO the forward-looking volume evaluation of the tumor, and the total tumor burden. And by seamlessly integrating image fusion for hybrid imaging plus DICOM RT reporting, syngo CT Oncology uniquely offers a one-stop shop for high speed and maximum confidence in tumor staging as part of breast cancer care.

“The Adaptive Scanner, SOMATOM Definition AS, enables us to address any clinical question in any situation.”

Joseph Schoepf, MD, Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA