GE Healthcare
Discovery NM/CT 670
Discover what lies beyond the horizon.
Expanding nuclear medicine to help
you explore uncharted territory.
The Discovery* NM/CT 670 is designed to illuminate both the body and your mind. Allowing you to
explore the deepest regions of your patient, while helping you see beyond what once was thought
possible. Helping you expand your vision as you search for new solutions. Finding solutions that
previously seemed out of reach. Empowering you to go discover new frontiers.
Let your vision guide your sight.
Built on GE’s pioneering legacy in molecular imaging, the Discovery NM/CT 670 leverages our
decades of imaging excellence and advanced SPECT and CT technology. Helping you obtain a
clear, more complete understanding of the challenges you face, from heart disease and stroke to
bone disease, neurological disorders and renal failure.
With advanced hybrid technology that is geared to extend the boundaries of nuclear medicine,
the Discovery NM/CT 670 offers the advanced scanning capability, analysis tools and diagnostics
that may not only affect individual patient outcomes, but also help to find and address entire
areas of affliction. Your vision, enhanced by this technology, can potentially help change the face
of healthcare and win the war against disease.
Die Cut
Cutting-edge medicine can give your
practice a competitive edge.
The Discovery NM/CT 670 can do more than just enhance your vision and help improve your diagnostic Dose management - Effective dose reduction technology allows you to reduce your
capabilities; it can also potentially help strengthen your patient relationships and enhance the reputation patient dose by as much as half when compared to standard CT and NM scanning protocols.
of your practice.
Advanced applications - The Xeleris* processing and review station delivers the power and versatility to
Increased productivity - Half-time bone scans, automated acquisition and camera setup and IHE** help you diagnose, investigate and treat entire categories of disease.
compliant worklist-scheduled workflow can help improve efficiency and give you the ability to complete
a hybrid SPECT/CT study plus WB bone scan in as little as 16 minutes imaging time.
Patient comfort - Ergonomic design and a wide gantry bore combine with advanced robotics for faster
setup and dramatically reduced acquisition times. This may increase patient comfort while reducing patient
Outstanding image quality - Innovative Elite NXT detector design, advanced scanning capabilities and stress and time on the table.
the BrightSpeed* Elite CT scanner can help you to see clearly and diagnose with confidence.
Exceptional connectivity - With the Xeleris Floating License, you have real-time access, no matter where
you happen to be.
World-class support - Maximize uptime and usability with world-renowned GE service, which includes
local service complemented by advanced remote digital support.
This is NOT a die cut.
It only indicates where
the previsou page die
cut falls.
Your ability to see further is only surpassed
by your ability to do more.
Workflow matters. Whether you need to increase patient throughput or want more time to focus on the critical
details of a single case, the Discovery NM/CT 670 is designed for efficiency.
Advanced robotics mean outstanding operational simplicity and reliability. Plus simultaneous motions on
multiple axes allow for faster gantry movement and deliver faster setup and shorter overall imaging time.
This gives you the ability to do complete bone protocol imaging time in 16 min — including Evolution for
Bone planar half-time WB scanning and Evolution for Bone half-time SPECT scan combined with 40 cm axial
Brightspeed CT scan.
Expedite setup and reporting while minimizing errors with IHE Scheduled Workflow, including Modality Worklist.
For frequently used imaging protocols, eliminate the need to reenter data and parameters for the various
modules in a sequence using Ignite one-step auto positioning and auto processing.
Minimize calibration time and cost with a single set of energy, uniformity and linearity maps that utilize one
radionuclide for all calibrations.
Specializing in healthcare’s Orthopedics
most important field. Evolution for Bone planar and SPECT are advanced noise-reduction algorithms that
Yours. improve structure delineation in the image while enabling up to a 50% reduction in
count density compared to standard protocol with the same image quality.
The versatile and flexible Discovery NM/CT 670 can aid investigations in many The Evolution for Bone algorithms can:
care areas. Plus advanced algorithms and the Xeleris workstation can help you • Improve WB planar image quality for the same scan time
assemble, review, combine and analyze images more effectively—helping you • Shorten scan time by up to 50% while preserving image quality
maximize the data and insights you receive from every scan. • Reduce injected dose by up to 50% while preserving scan time
and image quality
Advanced Elite NXT detector technology, including Ultra-Short PMTs, an Ultra-Thin
Pressure Sensitive layer and miniatured electronics, yields superb energy resolution, And BrightSpeed Elite 16 slice CT with 0.625 mm per slice and 20 mm
outstanding SPECT resolution and very high count rate. Plus, with BrightSpeed coverage can reveal the finest anatomic details more efficiently and
Elite 16 slice CT, the Discovery NM/CT 670 is also a fully functional premium help localize disorders more precisely.
diagnostic CT in its own right, so you’re prepared when routine workflow
turns into overflow.
Volumetrix MI Evolution for Bone planar, ½ time
Cardiology
Half-time SPECT with Evolution* for Cardiac may
help reduce the likelihood of patient motion,
improve patient experience and increase patient
throughput while delivering the same diagnostic
accuracy in half the time or at half the dose
compared to conventional full-dose image quality OSEM
without Evolution.
BrightSpeed Elite 16 slice CT with 0.5 sec rotation
speed and 20 mm coverage can enable accurate
Calcium Scoring with comprehensive 4DM analysis
and reporting. A single CT scan can be used for
attenuation correction of both rest and stress Cardiac Morphing
SPECT studies, saving time and reducing patient
dose, while ACQC enables effective alignment of CT
attenuation correction maps to cardiac SPECT data
sets to help enable diagnostic confidence.
Cardiac Morphing remaps the
myocardial perimeters in
tomograms of the entire cardiac
cycle to match the myocardial
end-diastolic perimeter size. It
then sums the remapped bins to
provide a clearer image of the
myocardium.
Myocardial Perfusion, Function, and Calcium Scoring 4DM Reports
Attenuation Correction with ACQC
Oncology
Designed for minimum scatter penetration
and high resolution, SPECT-optimized
collimators with Evolution for Bone or
Evolution Toolkit resolution recovery
help deliver outstanding in-depth lesion
detectability. Combining BrightSpeed Elite’s
superb resolution, Pitch Booster’s extended
axial coverage and Volumetrix 3D image
registration/fusion engine, Discovery NM/
CT 670 supports accurate detection, fast
imaging cycle and extremely clear reports
for both referrals and colleagues.
Neurology ASiR
Innovative high-resolution Elite NXT detectors with 9.5% energy GE Healthcare offers an industry-proven adaptive statistical iterative
resolution and outstanding 9.9 mm SPECT resolution enhanced by reconstruction that may deliver noise performance (pixel standard
brain SPECT-optimized ultra-flared fan-beam collimators deliver deviation) equivalent to an acquisition with higher generator power
high-quality Neuro-scintigraphy. and may allow for scanning at lower mA and less anode heat,
thereby reducing tube cooling limitations.†
With BrightSpeed Elite’s 0.625 mm slicing and the Neuro 3D Filter,
which delivers image-quality improvement in noise reduction With our exclusive ASiR technology, Discovery NM/CT 670 may enable
(measured by pixel standard deviation) at the same dose level, the reduction in pixel noise standard deviation and may allow for reduced
Discovery NM/CT 670 is an excellent tool for neurology studies. mA in the acquisition of images, thereby reducing the dose required.†
Conventional Conventional ASiR technology may enable improvement in low contrast
detectability.†
†
In clinical practice, the use of ASiR may reduce CT patient dose depending on the
clinical task, patient size, anatomical location and clinical practice. A consultation with
a radiologist and a physicist should be made to determine the appropriate dose to
obtain diagnostic image quality for the particular clinical task.
ASiR ASiR
Less noise. Better contrast. Easier to trace borders
between gray and white matter.
Conventional ASiR
The ability to enhance image resolution Reduced Dosage
Cover more anatomy with the same image
Enhanced Imaging
Neuro 3D Filter provides the ability to improve
quality with Pitch Booster* IQ Enhance. This the image quality of head acquisition data by
while reducing your patient’s dose. technology may improve image quality by noise reduction at the same dose level, or to
reducing helical artifact in thin-slice helical obtain the same image quality by reducing the
scans, allowing faster pitch scanning covering mA, thereby optimizing the dose required.
Thanks to advanced SPECT and CT dose management, sacrificing image quality for lower dose more anatomy at the same image quality. This
is no longer a compromise you have to make. With the Discovery NM/CT 670 you can increase coverage speed is equivalent to that of wider Short Conventional
coverage, reduce dosage or enhance image quality in a large majority of scans. Geometry X-Ray Geometry
detectors at the same table speed. In addition,
2D and 3D Dose Modulation adjusts the mA
In addition to following the ALARA principles and potentially improving the imaging experience according to the anatomy being imaged,
for your patients, faster scans may help improve image quality thanks to reduced patient allowing for significant dose reduction.
movement. And that helps enable greater diagnostic confidence with fewer SPECT rescans.
Surface dose may be cut by 20% with dynamic
bow-tie beam-shaping filters. And reduce
injected dose by 50% with Evolution for Bone*
SPECT planar and myocardial solutions.
Your ideas drove our innovation.
Now we’re returning the favor.
Innovative hybrid technology seamlessly integrates the functional images of advanced
SPECT with the precise anatomical detail of multi-slice high-resolution CT. This coupling
of technologies delivers a new dimension of image quality, application possibilities and
versatility—so you can go discover more than you ever thought possible.
Powerful SPECT algorithms allow you to cut dose or acquisition time in half while
maintaining the same image quality as standard protocols. The Evolution family of
advanced reconstruction products, which model the collimator-detector response,
is based on OSEM resolution recovery reconstruction algorithms developed at Johns
Hopkins University and UNC Chapel Hill.
Potentially achieve higher productivity imaging and diagnosis of your patients with
Volumetrix MI powerful multimodality image registration tools, which allow you to
precisely align SPECT, PET, MR and CT scans to enable high diagnostic confidence.
Volumetrix MI utilizes advanced motion detection and correction algorithms to give you
the flexibility to register and display in 3D single or multiple SPECT and hybrid SPECT/
CT scans. Plus, Volumetrix 3D gives you an easier way to review hybrid data sets due to
volume rendering, segmentation and fusion of SPECT studies with MR or CT scans.
Dosimetry toolkit, quantitative tracer uptake
and clearance measurements can help in
radiation therapy planning.
Cardiac Morphing allows for enhanced image
quality of myocardial perfusion scans while
a broad selection of advanced BrightSpeed
Elite imaging protocols are available to meet
your most demanding CT scanning needs.
All of which can help you see more,
learn more and discover more.
Helping to improve patient care and
show that you care about your patients.
The Discovery NM/CT 670 is designed to enhance your patient’s peace of mind, as
well as your patient’s experience. From low-dose, fast-acquisition technology to
simple, but significant, patient-comfort features, scans are now easier and more
gentle than scans taken on previous generation products.
An open gantry and large 70 cm (28”) bore combined with a built-in entertainment
center can help improve patient’s ease and comfort. And fast and flexible detector
positioning for a wide variety of procedures, along with enhanced real-time
automated body contouring technology, means your patients spend less time being
scanned and more time feeling cared for.
The Xeleris Workstation.
Your portal into what is now possible.
Xeleris is a high-performance processing and review station that delivers innovative productivity tools, A single workstation for the radiologist and nuclear medicine
built-in connectivity, exceptional processing speed and outstanding versatility. Over 7,500 Xeleris workstations physician to use for patient review, analysis, reporting and
are currently being used around the world to provide healthcare professionals with the accurate information they archiving, backed by an extensive clinical library.
need to manage patient data quickly and efficiently in one unified location.
The Xeleris workstation is PACS compatible with IHE profile
support including:
• Multi-frame secondary capture (MFSC)
• DICOM viewer for NM, SPECT/CT, PET/CT on CD or DVD
• The Xeleris Suite for RA 1000 brings full NM applications
to PACS
DirectConnect offers seamless integration with all GE
scanners and many non-GE systems, with scalability to add
future devices as well.
Dual wide-screen monitors allow simultaneous viewing of
multiple hybrid NM/CT data sets with comparative follow-up
of NM/NM scans.
Aladdin* customization tools and programmability make it
easy to modify your favorite Xeleris applications, or use
components to create your own.
Anywhere access.
Available at any time.
A key productivity enhancement is found in XFL — Xeleris Floating License, an outstanding portable solution
for nuclear medicine. XFL provides a quantum leap forward in breaking out of the traditional workstation
box. With remote access to Xeleris applications, you can now experience Xeleris anywhere—whether it be
on-site through LAN or off-site through WAN and VPN.
Solutions, such as XFL, Xeleris on Centricity and our DICOM viewer, give you the freedom to work where and
when you choose, helping you increase your productivity and responsiveness.
The GE Continuum at work for you.
In addition to outstanding products and technology, GE delivers world-class support
and services including:
• Scalable GE enterprise-wide networking solutions to support and integrate
new and existing purchases
• Site planning and installation
• Customized financing and service solutions
• Masters Series seminars and TiP education offerings to keep physicians
and technologists up to date
• A direct upgrade path to help you keep your systems current
The GE
Real-time support. Virtually. hybrid family.
Our innovative support systems are designed to help you keep your operations running smoothly and to ensure The Discovery NM/CT 670 is the perfect addition to
that you always have access to any help you may need. the GE hybrid family of imaging systems designed
to help physicians practice with exceptional vision
InSite* - GE’s remote diagnostic iLinq* - Provides instant operator iCenter* - Offers access and flexibility. For those exploring new frontiers,
and solutions network saves time console access to an interactive to the latest updates on the Discovery NM/CT 670 has become a beacon
and maximizes productivity by remote online engineer or equipment uptime, contract of technological progress. The Infinia Hawkeye* 4
linking your system directly to our applications specialist. information, parts delivery contains more than a decade’s worth of refinements
centralized, online engineering and and equipment alerts. and innovative ways to impact patient management.
applications support team. And the Discovery NM/CT 570 provides cardiac
specialists with advancements that help diagnose
common diseases effectively and with high confidence.
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