Siemens Healthineers and Cercare Medical enter into global collaboration to advance stroke care
Cercare Medical and Siemens Healthineers announced a global collaboration to accelerate the adoption of Cone-Beam CT Perfusion (CBCT-P) in acute stroke care and leverage its capability to show the flow of blood through the brain’s tissue and visualize how well different areas are being supplied with oxygen and nutrients.
The joint solution combines the Cercare Medical Neurosuite (CMN), an integrated portfolio of advanced, vendor-neutral imaging software solutions that deliver automated perfusion analysis across Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and Cone-Beam CT with the Siemens Healthineers Syngo DynaCT Multiphase, a 3D acquisition protocol that enables up to ten CBCT angiography phases. The two solutions combined enable advanced perfusion and metabolic imaging directly in the angiography suite, helping clinicians diagnose stroke and during intervention reducing the need of transferring the patient from the angiography room to the imaging modality. This capability has the potential to streamline workflows and shorten the time to treatment, which is a critical factor for the outcome of stroke patients.
The scientific foundation of the solution has been established in close collaboration with Prof. Johannes Kaesmacher, MD, at Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland. Additional projects are underway at three other leading hospitals. “
