SenoClaire from GE*
• Breast tomosynthesis is a three-dimensional imaging technology that uses a short, low-dose X-ray scan around the compressed breast with only nine exposures.
• SenoClaire offers superior sensitivity for architectural distortions and masses, giving you more clinical confidence while delivering the same amount of dose as a digital mammographic acquisition of the same view.
• The SenoClaire detector delivers high DQE at low dose for visualizing microcalcifications without binning, a process that groups pixels together for faster readout speeds and improved signal-to-noise ratios, but with reduced image quality.
• Step-by-step tube movement preserves microcalcification sharpness and avoids image blurring, since the tube makes a full stop for each of the nine exposures. This provides higher peak contrast for microcalcifications than continuous tube movement.
• An anti-scatter solution designed for tomosynthesis, the SenoClaire 3D grid reduces scattered radiation and improves 3D detectability for breasts of above-average thickness, while preserving dose and performance.
• SenoClaire uses ASiRDBT , an iterative reconstruction algorithm that produces FFDM image-like results and has a positive impact on the visibility of microcalcification compared to the traditional Filtered Back Projection (FBP) algorithm.
