The ARTIS icono ceiling, a ceiling-mounted angiography system from Siemens Healthineers, provides imaging guidance for a wide range of routine and advanced interventional radiology and cardiovascular procedures. Its design flexibility combines with intelligent workflows and advanced positioning accuracy. The system’s rotational capabilities and simplified C-arm cabling enable superfast cone beam computed tomography (CT) data acquisitions for reduced motion artifacts and less patient contrast dose. The new Xpand feature¹ enables transverse movement of the C-arm at the push of a button, permitting easier positioning for radial access and allowing the user to move the C-arm out of the way when direct patient care is required. Predefined Case Flows permit precise intraoperative guidance and excellent clinical outcomes with minimal user interaction, faster system positioning, and low patient radiation dose. The new OPTIQ exposure control uses a contrast-based technique that is supported by intelligent, self-adjusting algorithms. OPTIQ automatically considers the source to image distance (SID), collimation settings, grid status, and patient thickness; it also determines and applies the optimal combination of the five available radiation exposure parameters and the detector dose as an additional variable. This exposure control is designed to achieve the requested contrast-to-noise ratio while prioritizing dose reduction.
¹ 510(k)-pending
