Radiography
Bone Suppression image enhancement technology
Attain an unobstructed chest image from a single exposure
Boost diagnostic decision-making confidence with a supplementary, bone-suppressed soft tissue image acquired without additional X-ray dose or added time. Philips Bone Suppression image enhancement technology uses AI to suppress bones on digital adult erect chest X-ray images, creating both a conventional image and an unobstructed soft tissue image with a single exposure. Bone Suppression is fully integrated into the Eleva workflow.
Confident interpretation
By providing a soft tissue image in addition to a conventional chest image, Bone Suppression provides decision-making support without the need for additional X-ray dose or time. With Bone Suppression, actionable lung nodule detection is improved up to 16.8%. [2]
Efficient workflow
Bone Suppression does not require an additional procedure, add to examination time or require additional equipment. Depending on the protocol, for each adult erect chest PA/AP image a bone-suppressed image can be automatically generated and sent to PACS in addition to the conventional image. Both the conventional and the bone-suppressed image can be accessed and reviewed at the PACS viewing station at any time.
Integrated into Eleva UI
The full and intelligent integration of Philips Bone Suppression software into the proven Eleva user interface, in combination with UNIQUE 2 image processing, enables confidence in image interpretation.
Accelerate exam performance, provide exceptional patient care
Philips DigitalDiagnost C90 premium DR room is designed to meet the diagnostic imaging needs of the most demanding institutions. It allows you to comfortably see more patients per day and shorten patient wait times by decreasing the time to diagnosis with innovative tools such as Bone Suppression that help drive workflow efficiency.
DigitalDiagnost C90’s live tube head camera, versatile room configurations, and exam automation technologies all help provide outstanding patient throughput.
Bone suppression technology helps us make the correct diagnosis more quickly and confidently than ever before.
Jared Christensen
MD, Professor of Radiology , Vice Chair, Strategy, Director, Duke Lung Screening Program
Duke University School of Medicine
Footnotes
- Freedman M et al. Improved detection of lung nodules with novel software that suppresses the rib and clavicle shadows on chest radiographs. Radiology. 2011.
- See 15 more patients/day, save 8 hrs. overtime/week, and avoid approx. 28 retakes/week (compared to the previous release of DigitalDiagnost and based on 100 patients per day. Actual results in other cases may vary)
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