With NAEOTOM Alpha with Quantum Technology, Siemens Healthineers has developed a radically new technology for clinical routine. At its core is a new kind of detector that is substantially different from a standard energy-integrating detector.
These photon-counting detectors have the potential to overcome the limitations of current CT detectors, by providing CT data at very high spatial resolution, without electronic noise, with improved contrast‐to‐noise ratio, at lower radiation dose, and with intrinsic spectral information. With this new technology it is possible to scan patients previously excluded from cardiac CT. NAEOTOM Alpha offers impressive details for small structures and facilitates the differentiation of calcium from iodine. For more information, please visit our NAEOTOM Alpha website.