The FDA has approved GE Healthcare’s Q.Clear, a technology that GE says improves accuracy when assessing a patient’s response to treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Q.Clear, a technology by GE Healthcare that improves accuracy and quality in PET/CT imaging.
Q.Clear is an innovative tool that can provide up to two times improvement in both quantitative accuracy and image quality, according to a release. While technology in PET image reconstruction has improved over the last decade and provides better image quality, reduced acquisition time and lower injected dose, current technologies may force a compromise between image quality and quantitation. GE claims that Q.Clear technology shows the advantage of full convergence PET imaging without compromising quantitation and image quality.
Q.Clear provides clinicians with the ability to detect smaller lesions and determine earlier whether a patient is responding to current treatment. When combined with GE Healthcare’s Q.Suite, Q.Clear enables clinicians to assess treatment response more accurately, according to the release.
“We know that approximately 70 percent of cancer patients don’t always respond to their initial course of treatment,” Steve Gray, president and CEO of GE Healthcare MICT, said in a release. “If we can give clinicians an accurate, reliable and faster tool to confirm that a change in treatment is needed, the patient will benefit greatly. For example, PET/CT can help clinicians determine whether chemotherapy is working in fewer cycles, saving patients unnecessary procedures.”
Q.Clear is not yet available for countries that require CE marking.
FDA Clears CT-Based AI Tools for PE Detection and Stroke Severity Assessment
March 26th 2024The artificial intelligence (AI) modalities CINA-iPE and CINA-ASPECTS may facilitate improved detection of incidental pulmonary embolism and stroke evaluation, respectively, based on computed tomography (CT) scans.
FDA Clears Remote Scanning Support Platform for MRI, CT and PET/CT
March 25th 2024The multimodality system nCommand Lite reportedly facilitates real-time remote imaging guidance on scanning parameters and procedure assessments to licensed technologists for a variety of imaging modalities including CT and MRI.
The Reading Room: Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Cancer Screenings, and COVID-19
November 3rd 2020In this podcast episode, Dr. Shalom Kalnicki, from Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, discusses the disparities minority patients face with cancer screenings and what can be done to increase access during the pandemic.