The Precedence SPECT/CT system unites high-end, multislice CT with an exceptionally flexible gamma camera—a true breakthrough in functional and molecular imaging that can aid diagnosis and treatment in cardiology and oncology.
This merged system affords a comprehensive solution, providing registered SPECT and CT images in addition to individual SPECT, CT, or planar nuclear medicine images.
Clinicians can employ the fused SPECT/CT data sets to facilitate localization of pathology or alternatively, can acquire the individual datasets in a single imaging session, improving workflow and patient comfort.
Hybrid imaging. No one brings it together like Philips.
Designed for the most challenging patients head to toe
For greater clinical confidence and efficiency, Precedence offers diagnostic CT capabilities, which enable attenuation correction and localization when combined with the PET-like resolution of Philips SPECT. The ability to perform various studies in one exam saves time for both patients and physicians. The combination of functional SPECT data with the anatomical precision of CT data provides a new level of diagnostic confidence.
For ultimate flexibility, Precedence can be used for SPECT/CT studies, CT-only studies, and SPECT-only studies, depending on the department’s needs. It provides full diagnostic CT capabilities for radiology as a routine CT scanner, or as an overflow CT scanner.
Precedence with 16-slice CT is ideal for high resolution CT studies with complementary SPECT studies, providing the ability to do a combined coronary CTA, coronary calcium scoring and attenuation-corrected SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in a single imaging session.
Precedence is designed not only to perform currently reimbursable nuclear medicine and CT procedures, but also is a platform for the future—accelerating molecular imaging into the mainstream of care.
The advantages of Precedence extend to every member of the healthcare team:
- Diagnostic physicians benefit from the system's dual SPECT and CT datasets with attenuation-corrected nuclear images, which help with diagnostic confidence.
- Referring physicians have more confidence and faster reporting for diagnosis and treatment
planning. - Patients experience a faster exam process, since both SPECT and CT scans are acquired in a single imaging session.
- Healthcare administrators benefit from a range of competitive advantages, including the possibility to attract more referrals, to improve workflow and economics, and to enhance overall site marketability.