Hear how St. Bernhard Hospital uses Philips CT 5300 for cardiac imaging
- By Philips
- Featuring
- March 01 2025
- Duration 2:24
The CEO, head of Radiology and CT technologist at St. Bernhard Hospital in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany discuss the clinical advantages provided by the Philips CT 5300 system. An interest in cardiac imaging and improved workflow led them to choose Philips technology. Watch to hear about their experiences.
At-a-glance:
- St. Bernhard Hospital wanted to expand services into cardiac imaging
- Precise Image AI reconstruction on the CT 5300 provides high image quality at a low dose
- CT Smart Workflow features simplify the workflow to help speed diagnosis and treatment
The need to provide advanced cardiac care
St. Bernhard Hospital is a hospital interested in innovations in the field of CT diagnostics, and has an aim to constantly evolve. According to Josef Lübbers, CEO, “In addition to a reduction in radiation exposure, it was important for us to enter the field of cardiac imaging with a new CT scanner.”
Visualizing cardiac anatomy
The CT 5300 offers head-to-toe CT imaging and combines this with high-end imaging such as coronary angiography to allow for an extremely broad spectrum of applications. “It is quite amazing what we can achieve with the combination of 64 detector channels and AI-based reconstruction,” says Dr. Hilmar Kühl, PD, Head of Radiology. “With Precise Image we now get much better images at reduced doses. And we're definitely seeing an improvement in image quality with Precise Cardiac, because for the first time we can now visualize cardiac anatomy nearly artifact-free, which is very valuable.”
For the first time we can now visualize cardiac anatomy nearly artifact-free, which is very valuable.
Ease workflow with AI
Arnaud Launois, CT Technologist finds that CT 5300’s AI-enabled CT Smart Workflow features make daily work on the scanner much easier. “Precise Position automatically positions the patient. This improves our consistency from user to user and definitely reduces unnecessary radiation exposure. CT Smart Workflow definitely simplifies our work.”
For example, he says, with Precise Rib clinicians can simply unfold the entire rib cage immediately and the ribs are automatically labeled individually, which helps to speed up the diagnosis. “And now with Precise Image we have a dose reduction of 80%,” Launois says, “The images are really excellent. It’s like night and day.”