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DoseWise - Tailored to the Allura

DoseWise is active throughout every level of your Allura system - from spectrabeam, pulsed fluoroscopy to syncratouch and more. It ensures Philips exploits every possible opportunity to reduce dose, while maintaining image quality.   For the Allura family, DoseWise includes three highly effective strategies for dose management:

1. Smart Beam

DoseWise brings you SpectraBeam technology, the smart way to remove unwanted ‘soft’ radiation and minimize scatter radiation, automatically set to your choice. In combination with the powerful MRC tube Allura's SpectraBeam filters in fluoro and exposures remove unwanted soft radiation, i.e. those X-rays that hit the patient but do not have enough energy to reach the image detector. In this way, filtering significantly reduces patient dose and scattered radiation for you and your staff while maintaining a high image quality.

2. Less Time

DoseWise gives you a range of automatic exposure controls to maximize dose efficiency. These include the customizable programs that automatically select the correct fine-tuned parameters for your exam type, so you get the right exposure the first time. DoseWise also does it by pulsing the beam, pulsed fluoroscopy reduces dose since the beam is continuously switched on-off.

3. More Awareness

There are many ways where you as a clinician can have direct impact on dose, simply by turning X-rays off, or lowering them whenever possible. That's why DoseWise enables you to obtain clear, realtime information, so you can make an easy optimal balance between image quality and radiation exposure. With SyncraTouch you are in control, with a simple three-button pad for setting the fluoromode at the table side. So you can also adapt, fine-tune, and focus the beam as you need.

Clinical Results:

Crisp contours, bright contrast, and high resolution: these are the attributes that make perfect images. With DoseWise they're also made with less patient dose, and that makes perfect sense.

Read more about DoseWise in the field and how DoseWise works, in the Inside Philips Cardio/Vascular X-Ray brochure.  Download PDF.