Technology Backgrounder

Computed Tomography (CT)

A recognized leader in the industry, Philips offers a complete range of Computed Tomography
(CT) products and services to meet the requirements of a wide variety of healthcare providers,
from routine to cutting edge. Helping clinicians improve patient management by continually
developing new applications and tools that save time to allow more focus on patients, Philips CT
delivers new value through a deeper understanding of the way its customers need and want to
work. These breakthroughs are made possible by being focused on designs that are user and
patient-centric together with advanced technologies.

An integral part of Philips range of healthcare solutions, Philips’ CT family of products are
designed to work with and alongside other Philips Medical Systems technologies and offerings to
better enable customers to intensely focus on the patient throughout the entire care cycle. Philips
offers a full range of solutions through its Brilliance and MX CT product lines.

Essence technology on Brilliance iCT and Brilliance 64 scanners

At this year’s RSNA, Philips introduces Essence technology – a unique

combination of X-ray tube, detector and reconstruction design
elements that improve image quality in every CT exam. At the core of
new Brilliance iCT and new Brilliance 64-channel scanners, Essence
technology provides the diagnostic accuracy required by clinicians to
support high levels of patient care. A scalable technology platform,
Essence technology enables image quality improvements in current and future generations of
Philips CT scanners.

Brilliance CT with Essence technology is a more intelligent form of CT. Providing the optimal
combination of x-ray tube, detector and reconstruction technology, Essence technology powers
the new Brilliance 64-channel scanners as well as the new Brilliance iCT. The new Brilliance 64
with Essence technology is the latest in advanced, premium 64-channel scanners for all routine
radiological imaging including cardiac CT. Brilliance iCT offers 256 slices and unprecedented
speed, x-ray tube power, coverage and dose utility. Brilliance iCT sets the benchmark for
advanced cardiovascular imaging while simultaneously improving diagnostic accuracy and
lowering dose in all exams.

Key Benefits/Features of Essence Technology

• Smart Focal Spot X-ray tube technology improves sampling density for enhanced spatial
resolution in all exams
• Nano-Panel detector design enables fast and low dose examinations particularly important
for coronary artery imaging, lung scanning and brain perfusion
• RapidView Reconstruction provides high temporal resolution through adaptive, rate-
responsive techniques to freeze patient motion

Brilliance Everywhere

The Brilliance Everywhere solution addresses the primary challenge

facing multislice CT users today – how to manage the large datasets

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Brilliance Everywhere utilizes thin-client technology to turn any PC on a hospital’s network into
an advanced visualization workstation. Simplified collaboration with clinicians throughout the
care cycle is now as close as the nearest computer.

Virtual Colonoscopy Solution with Perspective Filet View Technology

Only Philips Medical Systems offers the Perspective Filet View

software in its 3D virtual colonoscopy package. The Perspective
Filet View takes acquired CT scans of the patient and unfolds the
images of the colon, displaying it flat like a landscape in a three
dimensional manner so that clinicians can scroll over and easily
view. Since folds in the colon can hide polyps, the technology
helps to prevent these blind spots, creating an easy way for physicians to find and assess polyps
fast.

The solution also reduces virtual colonoscopy read times for physicians. A September 2007
article in the journal Radiology found that Philips’ Perspective Filet View delivered read times of
only nine minutes compared nearly 25 minutes as highlighted in a recent presentation of virtual
colonoscopy clinical trial data from the American College of Radiology Imaging Network
(ACRIN). The Perspective Filet View technology also delivers a 420-degree circular view of the
colon at any given point along an automatically calculated centerline through all colon segments.

Key Benefits/Features of Perspective Filet View

• The Philips software displays the internal surface of the colon in a linear fashion
unfolded like a pathology dissection and sequential like a film-strip or tape
• The whole circumference of the colon is displayed, therefore clinicians do not need to
review the colon several time like they do with a simulated virtual endoscopic view
• If a suspicious irregularity is detected, secondary windows display multiplanar cuts or
reference views to be used for a quick reference to identify real findings and artifacts

Spectral CT
At RSNA, Philips will provide a look into the future of CT: Spectral imaging. Results from over
1,000 clinical exams, on the Company’s exclusive dual-layer detector prototype, uncover the
potential breakthroughs enabled by simultaneous, multi-energy detection. Complementing these
clinical investigations, laboratory results from Philips’ advanced photon-counting prototype will
be on display. In the hands of a global network of over 15 Spectral CT researcher sites,
Philips is leading the way in this important area of fundamental CT research.