GE DIAMOND
A
Design that combines Form, Function & Future
The award-winning
Diamond began with a process of analyzing and understanding the
key elements involved in breast healthcare.
Its intuitive design started with clinicians and patients and then
focused on the human touch that is required in the delicate field
of breast imaging. With this approach, the Diamond becomes an extension
of the user’s thoughts and actions.
Autopoint helps you get it righ First Time
Diamond brings
new intelligence to breast imaging. AutoPoint digitally analyzes
breast composition and structure.
PaddleLogic senses which
paddle the operator has selected; AutoPoint analyzes only the compressed
area of the breast and Diamond collimates automatically to the correct
field size for each paddle.
Autopoint selects the
correct
AEC
detectors at the
beginning of the exposure. The eight detectors are optimized in
size, location and shape.
ParkBack gives you open Workspace for Ergonomic Positioning
The unique
ParkBack tubehead moves completely out of the way for a more comfortable
positioning posture and avoids stress-related injuries. Better positioning
results in better images.
ParkBack also gives completely
open workspace for biopsy procedures.
More Breast Tissue with Improved Comfort
ECS (Easy Compression
System) is a unique bi-directional compression system which takes
advantage of the natural mobility of the breast. It works as a helping
hand in all projections to get more posterior breast tissue imaged
with improved tissue separation in order to visualize anatomical
structures better.
ECS also assists in the
positioning of challenging cases such as wheel chair patients, kyphotic
patients or patients with small breasts. ECS increases patient comfort
and results in more breast tissue being imaged.
The Diamond Tube offers a Sharp Image - time after time
Image quality
is everything. The new Diamond x-ray tube ensures this by providing
sharper images in breast imaging. The new precision- machined SP-cathode
construction gives Gaussian intensity distribution within the focal
spot, making the finest details visible in the images, especially
with the small focus.
The Integrated Stereotactic System
Delta 32 is
a natural extension to the Diamond breast care platform. This integrated
digital stereotactic and diagnostic imaging unit is geared to enhance
efficiency and patient comfort while the design skillfully combines
the clinically correct shape for optimized positioning with sealed
construction for easy cleaning.
Delta 32 allows a free
choice of projection angle within ±185 ° to minimize
the distance from the skin to the lesion. The stereotactic stereotactic
angles are freely selectable between ±15 ° by the user
to optimize the biopsy accuracy and the volume of view.
The ECS compression system
with manual fine tuning informs the user about the applied force
and compression thickness, while the motorized movement of the needle
guide makes stereotactic examinations more accurate and more convenient
More Confidence with a 3D Image
TACT
®(Tuned Aperture Computed
Tomography) technology from GE Healthcare reconstructs a 3-dimensional
model of a region of breast from a series of 2 dimensional digital
images.
In a
TACT
® study, the breast is compressed
with a normal spot imaging compression paddle and exposed from different
directions using the Diamond ’s semi-automatic stereotactic
tubehead movement. This patented method utilizes a reference point
in each image to define the geometry, thereby allowing the user
to freely select the projection angles.
The clinical benefits
of
TACT
® are
to define if the mammographic finding is caused by a real abnormal
lesion or by superposition of normal parenchymal structures, and
to detect changes in breast tissue which could otherwise be missed.
TACT
® also
helps to verify the correct targets for biopsies and to reduce the
number of biopsies performed.
TACT
® technology is used in Delta
32
TACT
® and
Delta
TACT
®
for diagnostic digital spot and diagnostic 3D imaging.
