GE Healthcare showcased its advanced ultrasound systems which are tailored for improved image quality and data management, at the recently held Arab Health 2010 in Dubai.

GE’s LOGIQ E9 general imaging ultrasound system Breakthrough 2010 - one of the highlights at the premier healthcare exhibition - has new transducers and software enhancements to provide improved image quality and productivity to pediatric, vascular and cardiac imaging.

“The Breakthrough 2010 enhancements extend LOGIQ E9’s extraordinary imaging, expert tools and easy workflow to more clinical specialties. Innovative Agile Acoustic Architecture, E-Series transducers, expert tools like fusion and a new cardiac suite of tools - combine to create amazing capabilities that are truly expanding the boundaries of ultrasound,” said Michael Stockhammer, GE Healthcare general manager, General Imaging Ultrasound, Emea.

Seven new transducers were introduced in this Breakthrough 2010 covering cardiac, vascular and pediatric applications. Vascular enhancements in this release include Auto IMT (intima media thickness) and Cardiac tools include Q-Analysis, Tissue Velocity Imaging, CW, ECG, Color M-Mode and more.

GE also showcased clinical images from one of the first European clinical installations of its new Discovery NM/CT 670, a hybrid imaging platform designed to improve workflow, dose management and overall image quality.

The system combines GE Healthcare’s state-of-the-art BrightSpeed Elite16 slice CT, a newly designed SPECT gantry for greater positional flexibility, and the latest advancements in Nuclear Medicine detectors.

“Ten years ago, we introduced the world’s first SPECT/CT,” said Karl Blight, general manager of GE Healthcare’s Emea Molecular Imaging business.

“With the Discovery NM/CT 670, we are revolutionising the industry once again, providing clinicians the ability to perform both hybrid imaging and standalone CT procedures.”

Keeping the patient in mind, the revolutionary system can reduce scan time dramatically. Bone imaging protocols, including planar whole body, two-FOV SPECT and CT attenuation correction/localisation, are among the most frequently performed Nuclear Medicine procedures.

With conventional nuclear hybrid imaging, a traditional bone imaging protocol can take up to 55 minutes. With the Discovery NM/CT 670, the time can be reduced to as little as 25 minutes, he explained.

Arab Health, the Middle East’s premier healthcare expo, was held from January 25 to 28 in Dubai.-TradeArabia News Service