FDA clears mobile CT scanner from Samsung's NeuroLogica - Mass Device

The BodyTom 64. [Image from NeuroLogica]

NeuroLogica — a Samsung Electronics subsidiary — announced contiguous that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its BodyTom 64 scanner.

Danvers, Massachusetts-based NeuroLogica designed its BodyTom 64 for point-of-care mobile computed tomography (CT).

BodyTom 64 offers revisions to the company’s bundle and information acquisition strategy (DAS) based connected lawsuit feedback. NeuroLogica incorporated Linux arsenic the operating strategy and provided the quality to make up to 64 cross-sectional CT images. This compares to 32 images produced by the erstwhile version, the BodyTom Elite.

The scanner offers multi-departmental imaging that stretches crossed assorted needs. It tin crook an operating country into an intraoperative neuro-imaging suite erstwhile combined with a radiolucent skull fixation device. This enhances neuro-navigation and surgical outcomes, according to a quality release.

Additionally, BodyTom 64 combines interior pb shielding and artillery operation. This allows for the translation of a modular trauma bay into an precocious CT imaging suite. BodyTom 64 besides offers the quality to rescan each signifier of needle guidance, bringing multi-slice CT to the interventional radiology suite.

“We’re thrilled to physique disconnected our expertise and elevate point-of-care imaging with our BodyTom 64, which tin alteration immoderate country successful a infirmary into an precocious imaging suite,” said Jason Koshnitsky, elder manager of planetary income and selling for NeuroLogica. “This full-body 64-slice CT scanner is an upgraded mentation of the BodyTom Elite CT scanner, providing enhanced functionality with the aforesaid high-resolution imaging capabilities.”