Siemens Healthcare | Somatom Definition Flash | Which Medical Device
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This dual source scanner is one of Siemens most popular scanners.
Rapic scan times and low doses along with the now 'standard' iterative reconstruction alogorithms yield great quality scans.
This scanner has a scan time of 0.6 seconds and temporal resolution of 75ms making cardiac scanning possible without beta blockers.
'Flash spiral' scanning mode allows a table feed of 458mm/sec making paediatric scanning without sedation possible.
Technical specifications:
| Detector | 2 x Stellar detector |
| Number of slices | 2 x 128 |
| Rotation time | 0.28 s1 |
| Temporal resolution | 75 ms1, heart-rate independent |
| Generator power | 200 kW (2 x 100 kW) |
| kV steps | 70, 80, 100, 120, 140 kV |
| Isotropic resolution | 0.33 mm |
| Cross-plane resolution | 0.30 mm |
| Max. scan speed | 458 mm/s1 with Flash Spiral |
| Table load | up to 307 kg / 676 lbs1 |
| Gantry opening | 78 cm |
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