Toshiba Aquilion

Description

Overview

The Toshiba Aquilion CT Scanner series is built to meet the rigorous demands of busy hospital departments, outpatient imaging centers, and emergency trauma rooms. Known for its rugged reliability and exceptional image quality, the Aquilion platform utilizes uniform 0.5 mm detector elements—the thinnest in the multi-slice CT market—ensuring true isotropic resolution in any plane without increasing radiation dose.

At the center of the Aquilion’s durability is the heavy-duty 7.5 MHU MegaCool™ X-ray tube. Combined with efficient oil/air cooling dynamics, it handles back-to-back, high-mA contrast studies and multi-phase abdominal protocols without heat storage bottlenecks. Integrated with Toshiba’s proprietary SURETechnology™ suite, operators gain real-time scan visualization, automated contrast tracking, and streamlined patient handling.

Key Features & Advanced Technologies

• 0.5 mm Quantum Detector Array: Engineered with solid-state detector material and 0.5 mm element widths, capturing fine details in bone, soft tissue, and small vascular structures across 512×512 and 1024×1024 reconstruction matrices.

• AIDR 3D (Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction): A sophisticated 3D iterative reconstruction algorithm operating in both the raw data and image domains. It reduces image noise by up to 50% and cuts radiation exposure by up to 75% compared to conventional filtered back-projection.

• 7.5 MHU MegaCool™ X-Ray Tube: High-thermal-capacity tube designed for high-volume centers, offering dissipation rates up to 1,386 kHU/min to eliminate mid-shift cooling delays.

• SURETechnology™ Suite:

  • SUREExposure™ 3D: Dynamically modulates X-ray tube current along the X, Y, and Z axes based on patient anatomy and target noise levels.

  • SUREStart™: Performs real-time bolus tracking to trigger contrast acquisitions automatically at peak arterial enhancement, saving up to 30 cc of contrast media.

  • SUREScan™: Displays full 512×512 helical reconstruction images in real time during scan execution (12 fps).

  • SURECardio™: Prospective and retrospective ECG-gated protocols for motion-free cardiac CTA acquisitions.

• iMAR (Iterative Metal Artifact Reduction) / APMC: Advanced artifact suppression algorithms that eliminate streaking caused by dental work, surgical clips, and orthopedic implants.

Technical Specifications