The ARTIS icono floor from Siemens Healthineers is a floor-mounted, single-plane angiography system for vascular, interventional cardiology, surgical and oncology procedures. The system’s OPTIQ image chain redesigns image processing for 2D imaging, increasing image quality across a wide range of C-arm angles and patient weights, regulating acquisition parameters to automatically achieve optimal image contrast at patient radiation doses that conform to the ALARA radiation safety principle. The improved roadmap function creates subtracted angiography images for easier navigation of the patient’s vascular system during fluoroscopy. Case Flows provide personalized workflow plans to optimize imaging parameters and system positions, in addition to displaying layouts for the entire procedure. With ceiling-like flexibility and a footprint of 269 square feet, the ARTIS icono floor provides coverage for patients of up to 6 feet 8 inches without repositioning, as well as lateral coverage of 6.23 feet. With its additional axis, the system can achieve virtually the same angles as a ceiling-mounted system and free space for anesthesia carts, echocardiography systems and patient monitors.
