FAST – our Fully Assisting Scanner Technologies – make time-consuming and complex procedures faster as well as far more intuitive. Thus they make scanning more reproducible and less prone to errors. For example, preparing an anatomically correct reconstruction of the whole spine now takes only 30 seconds, compared to 30 minutes when doing it manually.

CARE – our Combined Applications to Reduce Exposure – give you excellent image quality at the lowest possible dose. To make CT safer, even for the most delicate patients, e. g. children.

Together with syngo.via, FAST CARE, FOR ALL PATIENTS makes the complete examination, from scan preparation to data evaluation, even more streamlined, ensuring a highly-reliable diagnosis with the least burden on patients. With FAST CARE, the SOMATOM Definition AS is set to raise the standard of patient-centric productivity.

The CT scanner uses 30 percent less energy for a standard scan than does the previous model. It also requires less radiation dosage. Lead is abandoned completely for the usage of counterweights. The CT scanner is also almost completely recyclable (around 98 %).