SOMATOM Drive

Drive
precision
for all
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How can you overcome
the challenges of
tomorrow’s healthcare?
The challenges faced in providing patients with the best possible
care are seemingly countless, something which is also seen in
the area of imaging, including CT. Patients’ body types, ages,
and medical conditions can vary considerably. So achieving fast,
precise scans with uncooperative patients, those in altered mental
states, or those with renal insufficiency puts added pressure on
everyone involved.
Designed to powerfully enhance diagnostic quality and provide
more precision, flexibility, and efficiency, SOMATOM® Drive is
an exceptional new member of your radiological team – for
all your patients, all your business needs, and, of course, your
specific environment.

SOMATOM Drive – Drive precision for all

Drive precision Drive precision Drive precision

for your patients for your environment for your business needs

• Provide reliable diagnostic results • Standardize your institution’s • Allows you to implement unprece-
across clinical disciplines, as well quality of care to unseen levels dented system-management
as a new quality of patient care efficiency
• Promote optimum performance at
• Accept more patients than ever all times by simplifying routines • Connects you to the CT practice of
before and master urgent care and accelerating workflows tomorrow, advancing new clinical
fields and new technologies
• Improve the CT experience for
everybody involved

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Drive precision for your patients
SOMATOM Drive provides reliable diagnostic results across all clinical disciplines
and helps you achieve a new quality of patient care.

Pediatrics Urgent Care Critical Care

Children are usually unable to under- Urgent Care can take many forms: for Critical Care patients need access to
stand breathing instructions and their example, accident and emergency high quality, consistent imaging,
young age also makes them more medicine, pre- and postsurgical without time-consuming and costly
dose-sensitive. Turbo Flash mode patients, unplanned outpatients, aftercare procedures. SOMATOM Drive
helps eliminate motion artifacts and ward patients with a significant can significantly boost your vascular
without increasing the dose. Help change in state. SOMATOM Drive’s imaging potential by harnessing the
dose-sensitive patients without unique 10 kV Steps and CARE kV low-kV power of both X-ray tubes
limiting scan speed and temporal facilitate higher power at lower kVs, together, to provide a potential
resolution. making it even easier to achieve the reduction in contrast media for a
right dose for each individual patient. wider range of patients.

Lung Imaging Cardiovascular Imaging Orthopedics

Imaging of the thorax for lung-related An increase in referrals for Fractures and dislocations of extremi-
pathologies requires reductions in cardiovascular imaging, and the ties may require surgical interventions
dose and improvements in image complexity of the patients needing and ongoing follow-up. Imaging
quality. For lung cancer screening, scans, means you not only need to extremities with Tin Filters leads to a
the SOMATOM Drive comes with two stop motion in the coronaries, but to significant dose benefit over several
Tin Filters, which allow high-pitch stop lung and patient motion as well. examinations, bringing the dose
Turbo Flash scans to be performed. There is a major advantage when of a CT scan to that expected of a
This reduces dose and motion arti- scanning the whole heart with fast, routine X-ray, with significantly more
facts, which is especially important true in-plane temporal resolution, information.
for lung cancer screening. combined with High Power 70 & 80
for an even higher level of dose
precision for the patient.

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70 kV Turbo Flash modes for low dose in highly sensitive,
moving patients1

Precise patient dose even with full functional study incl.

valves & LIMA bypass graft at below 7 mSv. Long-range
cardiac imaging without compromising image quality2

10 kV Steps enable more precise selection of kV for

each patient3

Spectrally shaped scans with Tin Filter (Sn140 kV) Low-kV and low-contast (<50 mL) imaging for virtually
for low-dose lung imaging without apical artifacts, all patients – here, for example, with renal impairment and
e.g., streaking, even in larger patients2 claudication of the vessels2

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Drive precision for your environment
With SOMATOM Drive, you can upgrade your standardization of quality of care
and heighten your process efficiency by introducing automated workflows.
It also helps you simplify daily routines and reach a new level of modernization.

Safeguard correct and consistent positioning Overcoming challenges in your environment

Accurate patient positioning is essential for safe, The future of patient positioning is at the touch
error-free CT imaging with no rescans and time loss. of a button. Improve your workflow and get closer
With its game-changing FAST Integrated Workflow to your patients with SOMATOM Drive’s highly
with FAST 3D Camera, SOMATOM Drive helps you integrated Touch Panels.
to consistently acquire the right body region at the
right dose.

Automation drives precision in Automation drives precision in

challenging environments overburdened environments

Overcome workflow bottlenecks and staff training Siemens Healthineers’ unique automated image
challenges with Siemens Healthineers’ unique fully creation features, included in the DistinCT Reading
and semi-automated FAST and CARE features, as bundle, aim to reduce the burden on and improve
part of the DistinCT Imaging bundle. workflows in a radiology department.

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Drive precision for your business needs
With SOMATOM Drive, you are prepared for future challenges – new diseases,
new patients, and new workflows – in an approach to imaging that puts people first.

Driven by future technologies

DistinCT Function:
• Puts quantitative CT at your fingertips
• Introduces a new level of diagnostic information to CT
• Enhanced qualitative and quantitative analysis being an
everyday part of clinical routines

Quantitative CT at your fingertips

Dynamic perfusion studies Dynamic vascular studies

Neuro Body

Dynamic studies1

Virtual noncontrast (VNC) Fused (VNC + iodine map) iodine map

Dual Energy1

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Technical specifications

Max. scan speed 458 mm / s

In-plane temp.-res 75 ms

Rotation coverage 131 mm / rot

kV settings 70-140 kV at 10 kV Steps

mA at 70 kV, 80 kV 650 mA, 750 mA

Spatial resolution 0.3 mm

Gantry opening 78 cm

Generator power 200 kW (2 x 100 kW)

Technical overview

Dual Source CT with Straton® MX Sigma Turbo Flash mode (Superfast Scanning)
X-ray tubes & Sigma generators • Up to 458 mm/s
• Enable low-dose scanning while freezing motion at • Reduce the need for sedation
maximum speed • Freeze motion artifacts
• Optimized for low-kV imaging even at a reduced
scan time Dual Source Dual Energy
• Uncompromised Dual Energy with wide separation
Dual Source CT with StellarInfinity detectors of energy spectra
• Enable advanced Dual Energy applications such as
with integrated iterative reconstruction
bone marrow imaging
• Driven by a new level of integration of software
and hardware
Adaptive 4D Spiral
• Create excellent image quality with reduced dose
• Dynamic imaging up to 48 cm
• Low-kV neuro perfusion
Unique 10 kV Steps
• Provide more patients with the most precise dose
values for their situation
FAST Integrated Workflow with
• Adapt to every patient from pediatric to adult and FAST 3D Camera
from slim to obese • Precise isocentering and correct patient
positioning
Tin Filters • Exact topogram and planning
• Low-dose early detection • Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• 3D CT data at equivalent 2D X-ray dose levels
• Tin-filtered topogram

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SOMATOM Drive is not commercially available in all 1 Courtesy of Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital
AKH, Vienna, Austria.
countries. Due to regulatory reasons, its future avail-
ability cannot be guaranteed. Please contact your local 2 Courtesy of Fakultni Nemocnice Plzen, Plzen, Czech Republic.

Siemens Healthineers organization for further details. 3 Courtesy of Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
On account of certain regional limitations of sales rights
Courtesy of “Pediatrics” case and “Critical Care” case on page 3:
and service availability, we cannot guarantee that all Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam,
products/services/feaures included in this brochure are the Netherlands.
available through the Siemens Healthineers sales organi- Courtesy of “Urgent care” case and “Orthopedics” case image on
zation worldwide. Availability and packaging may vary by page 3: Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital AKH,
country and are subject to change without prior notice. Vienna, Austria.

Courtesy of “Lung imaging” case on page 3: Fakultni Nemocnice

The information in this document contains general Plzen, Plzen, Czech Republic.
descriptions of the technical options available and may
Courtesy of “Cardiovascular imaging” case on page 3: Medscan
not always apply in individual cases. Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia.

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