Radiology & Imaging Centers

Bone and Musculoskeletal Radiology is an essential clinical service offered by many Radiology Imaging centers and Radiology departments in hospitals around the world.

As Radiologists increasingly work in larger and larger groups, critical efficiency and cost improvements are the need of the hour. Driven by consolidation in the industry and need for better cost savings, Radiology centers are looking for a quick, accurate, safe and comfortable diagnosis for every patient.

Our DXA Bone and Metabolic Health portfolio can help you achieve economic and clinical outcomes in your specialty and offer a comfortable patient experience to your patients.

As a Radiologist, you can feel confident with the precision, accuracy and reliability of the GE technology that arms you with the right toolsets to provide increased clinical confidence in your diagnosis. Along with precision and accuracy of measurements, our products offer high quality images on the foundation of lower dosage of the DXA technology in comparison to traditional X-ray systems.

As a Radiology Technologist or a Radiology Assistant, you will receive excellent support on workflow efficiency, higher throughput, patient positioning tips, help in performing error-free scans, world-class user interface, and a product that offers a comfortable scan experience to your patients.

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Orthopedics and Rheumatology

Protection against bone health diseases such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, osteomalacia and bone fractures is a rising healthcare need among patients around the world. As an aging population becomes a worldwide reality, Orthopedics and Rheumatologists have an important role to play in early diagnosis and prevention of bone health diseases that limits the independence and vitality of their patients.

Osteoporosis, one of the major bone and musculoskeletal disease, affects 200 million women worldwide¹. This disease causes more than 8.9 million fractures annually, resulting in an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds worldwide. Your practice is at the forefront of fight against osteoporosis and debilitating fractures.

Whether you run a solo private practice, are associated with a private practice orthopedic group or part of a larger hospital, our portfolio of bone and metabolic health solutions offers you wide-range of products and advanced clinical applications to meet your diagnostic needs.

Based on proven and widely adopted Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) technology, our products can determine precise and accurate measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) of various skeletal sites (such as spine, femur, forearm, hand, & knee), trend BMD over time, estimate 10-year fracture risk through a FRAX^® score or analyze the microarchitecture of the bone through a Trabecular bone score. In addition, based on the Quantitative Ultrasound (QUS) technology, our products can assist you in the initial assessment of osteoporosis and fracture risk of patients through affordable, quick and reliable measurement of the calcaneus.

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Reference:

1. International Osteoporosis Foundation

Endocrinology

The Endocrinology practice is dedicated to diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases. As an Endocrinologist, you help restore the hormonal imbalances in the human body. The common diseases and disorders of the endocrine system that you may work with may include diabetes mellitus osteoporosis, weight and metabolism imbalance and thyroid disorders.

Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) technology for bone mineral density test and visceral fat, body fat and lean mass measurement can be one of the many important diagnostic tools in your toolkit to facilitate your research or diagnosis of metabolic health.

Whether you are part of a hospital or a multispecialty practice, we have a range of products and clinical applications to help you in your diagnostic procedures.

For instance, with our CoreScan^™ application, you can measure the amount and volume of visceral fat in the android region of the body. With the Color Coding and Color Mapping application, you can see the color-coded identification of bone tissue, fat tissue and lean tissue in the body along with a varying color gradient for fat distribution in the body.

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Pediatrics

Pediatric healthcare providers focus on the optimal physical, mental, & social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For your daily practice and pediatric research work, you need the best tools and technology to accurately assess and monitor a child’s growth and development.

Based on the proven, low-dosage and precise DXA technology, our portfolio of bone and metabolic health solutions offer you many tools for effective diagnosis and monitoring of bone and metabolic health of your patients. Many pediatricians use DXA technology to measure and analyze low bone mineral density, congenital anomalies, fractures, scoliosis and monitor pediatric weight management programs in infants and children.

Our Pediatric application helps you accurately assess and monitor children’s unique growth and development through analysis of height for age, BMC for bone area, bone area for height, lean body mass for height, and BMC for lean body mass. In addition, you can calculate the bone mineral density (BMD) of skeletal sites such as spine and femur. You can also analyze lean- and fat-tissue mass through total body measurement and perform total body less head (TBLH) measurement. Our tools provide you the ability to compare skeletal- and chronological-age measurements and BMD results against gender-specific pediatric reference populations.

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Geriatrics and Gerontology

The world population is aging rapidly. As per WHO, by 2050, the world’s population aged 60 years and older is expected to total 2 billion, up from 900 million in 2015 and 80% of all older people will live in low- and middle-income countries.

Geriatricians and Gerontologists play an important role through research, education and application of interdisciplinary knowledge of the aging process and aging populations to assist in improving the quality of life and promote the well-being of persons as they age within their families, communities and societies.

Our bone health and metabolic health solutions offer you various tools for geriatric research to study the effects of aging on the human body. Through the DXA body composition scan, you can measure the fat and lean mass distribution in the body and various regions of interest. You can also measure the bone mineral density of various skeletal sites such as spine, femur, forearm, hand, knee while analyzing spine morphometry and microarchitecture of the bone to assess bone quality of your patients.

Through our latest Sarcopenia application, you can use the appendicular lean mass (ALM) measurements from a DXA scan to determine the Sarcopenia status of the patient and continuously monitor the body composition changes over time.

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Bariatrics and Obesity Management

Obesity is a worldwide problem. As per WHO, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, are overweight. Of these, over 600 million are obese. Besides adults, obesity also affects children. 41 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2014.

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Obesity is a complex, clinical disorder with many contributing causes and factors. The condition is often associated with a wide range of medical problems, including high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, sleep apnea, depression, and arthritis.

Childhood obesity is associated with a higher chance of obesity, premature death and disability in adulthood. In addition to increased future risks, obese children experience breathing difficulties, increased risk of fractures, hypertension, early markers of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and psychological effects.

Bariatric practitioners provide crucial bariatric surgery and weight loss management programs where ongoing patient monitoring may be important. Based on the proven and reliable DXA technology, GE Healthcare offers a wide range of bone health and metabolic health solutions to measure bone mineral density, determine body composition – fat, lean and bone mass and trend body composition changes over time.

Through our Color Mapping application, you can study fat percentage distribution in the body and through our Color Coding application, you can view customizable color identification for fat, lean and bone tissue distribution throughout the body.

Through our CoreScan^™ application, you can measure the mass and volume of the visceral fat in the android region of the body. Visceral fat is known to be responsible for many diseases such as diabetes, stroke, and heart diseases.

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Obstetrics and Gynecology

Women are at an enhanced risk of developing osteoporosis and broken bones. Osteoporosis affects 200 million women worldwide¹. This disease causes more than 8.9 million fractures annually resulting in an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds worldwide. Osteoporotic fractures more commonly occur in the hip, spine and wrist. There are also significant mortality rates associated with hip fractures.

Your practice is at the forefront of the fight against osteoporosis, debilitating fractures and loss of independence among women as menopause, hormonal changes or other factors trigger loss of bone mineral density and increases fracture risk among women.

Our bone health and metabolic health solutions equip you with the tools to aid in better diagnosis of osteoporosis and fracture risk among women.

Screening postmenopausal women through a Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan provides a measurement of their bone mineral density and using the FRAX^®, a fracture risk assessment application, one can help to further predict a women’s risk of bone fracture in the next 10 years based on various risk factors such as age, body mass index, history of fracture, daily alcohol intake and whether a patient smokes, or has rheumatoid arthritis. Using the Trabecular Bone Score (TBS) application, you can also study the bone quality and the bone microarchitecture of the bone to achieve added clinical diagnostic confidence.

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Reference:

1. International Osteoporosis Foundation

Nutrition, Athletics and Sports Medicine

The Sports Performance community is driven by improving the human peak health & performance through a better understanding of the human body - body composition, metabolic factors, nutrition and genetics.

Professionals and Researchers in the field of Sports Performance pursue cutting edge research and develop customized exercise and dietary programs that brings out the best in their athletes.

Whether you are a Sports Physician, Kinesiologist, Physical Therapist, Sports Nutritionist, Dietician or a Strength and Conditioning coach, achieving athletic peak performance and bringing out the best in your athletes is most important to you. We can help you in your mission to study the role of nutrition and food science in achieving peak human performance in your athletes.

Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) technology based Body Composition solutions from GE Healthcare offers you many tools to obtain high resolution images and precise measurements of the total body and segmental regions of interest such as arms, legs, android and gynoid. Our technology helps you study body composition trending over time – i.e. how much the lean and fat tissue changes over time, therefore helping you measure the impact of your training or dietary programs on your athletes.

In addition, our advanced body composition capabilities empower you to measure the lean and fat distribution in the body along with the visceral fat content in the android region. You can also get insights into the metabolic information of your athletes through information such as resting metabolic rate and relative skeletal muscle index. Finally, we offer many attractive reporting templates that you can choose from to display body composition and metabolic information to your athletes for ease of interpretation and subsequent action.

DXA technology has emerged as one of the most proven and reliable techniques for body composition while being more convenient and easier to operate in comparison to alternative technologies for body composition. At GE Healthcare, we offer you the best of DXA technology to bring out the best in your athletes and make the most out of your training, nutrition and research programs.

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Lunar iDXA

The Best of DXA Technology. The most advanced DXA system with high clarity, precision and image resolution for research grade applications.

We have designed Lunar iDXA to provide you a high degree of clinical confidence across all body types for bone health and body composition with a state-of-the-art design.

In your search for answers to a patient’s health concerns, information is everything. And with Lunar iDXA, GE Healthcare offers our most advanced system to provide the data and images you need. Whether you’re assessing bone density, fracture risk, metabolic health, pediatric development or sarcopenia Lunar iDXA gives you a clear glimpse inside the body.

Prodigy

Proven and dependable DXA System with large installed base in more than 120 countries. Offers scalability to meet your basic to advanced bone health and metabolic health diagnostic needs.

Your practice demands dependable dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) assessment, and Prodigy delivers with exceptional precision and low-dose radiation. You can depend on Prodigy to provide precise data on soft tissue and bone composition, including bone-mineral density (BMD), lean- and fat-tissue mass, and percentage of fat. At the same time, Prodigy streamlines your patient care and practice workflow.

Aria

Entry Level DXA System focused on bone-only applications for value conscious clinicians. Better bone health for more people.

Aria is a central DXA device designed to meet your bone mineral density (BMD) patient care needs. Physicians no longer have to refer patients to far away hospitals nor rely on pDXA measurements due to budget or space constraints. Providing the convenience of in-house measurements saves patients time and the physician can better track compliance.

Aria is designed to fit in small spaces so there is likely no need to allocate a large room or incur construction costs.

*Available in selected markets only

Achilles EXPII

Accurate fracture risk assessment, comfortable for your patients and convenient for operators.

The Achilles EXPII bone ultrasonometer helps you protect the vitality of your patients by making fracture risk assessment accessible, comfortable and convenient.

The exam is quick and comfortable for your patients, and its user-friendly design makes it easy for your staff to operate, with no formal certification required.

The osteoporotic fracture risk assessment provided by Achilles EXPII closely matches prevalence as defined by central DXA^{1, 2, 3} while being fast and affordable.

Its high negative predictive value — 97 percent for 50- to 59-year-old Caucasian women —makes Achilles EXPII especially useful for discriminating between those not at risk for fracture and those in need of further evaluation by central DXA.⁴

Additionally, Achilles EXPII has proven long-term precision, making it useful for monitoring bone changes.^5,6,7

enCORE Software Platform

Simple User Interface. Efficient Workflow.

Our world-class enCORE software platform offers a wide range of clinical features for your bone and metabolic health diagnostic needs.

For more than 44 years, we have continuously innovated by adding new clinical application features in our enCORE software platform. Currently, we offer version 17 of our enCORE software platform.

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DXA Technology from GE Healthcare

Superior Technology. Reliable Results.

The DXA Technology from GE Healthcare is built on a strong foundation of superior technology keeping the patient in mind. Our technology results in higher precision and accuracy, while keeping dosage to the minimum. Thousands of physicians and technologists trust and deploy our DXA technology in numerous research and clinical applications.

What makes our DXA technology stand out?

Narrow Fan Beam Scan
Patented narrow fan beam technology combines the best features of pencil beams (no magnification, low dose) with the short scan time of wide fan beams while reducing magnification error inherent to wide-angle fan beam systems.

Multi-View Image Reconstruction (MVIR)
Using narrow fan beam technology, our DXA systems perform multiple, spaced and transverse sweeps across the site of interest resulting in accurate determination of bone-height above the tabletop, minimization of magnification errors, and thereby providing higher precision and accuracy.

Low Scattered Radiation
Due to narrow-fan beam technology, low scatter radiation in comparison to wide-angle fan beam systems.

Photon Counting Detector
Dose-efficient photon counting detector technology simultaneously counts low and high energy X-rays photons resulting in lower dosage to the patient and faster and efficient scans.

SmartScan^TM
Unique feature exclusive to our DXA systems identifies bone regions after each transverse sweep to estimate where to begin exposing the patient to X-rays on the subsequent sweep, thereby reducing the scan time and the dose to the patient.

K-edge Filter
A unique K-edge filter at the X-ray source that absorbs the X-rays in the middle energy range and protects the patient against unnecessary exposure.

Multi-User Database Access (MUDBA)
The Multi-User Database Access (MUDBA) feature permits multiple computer workstations to access DXA scan files simultaneously, even remotely – allowing up to 40 remote computers to be connected. Multiple images from our DXA systems can be saved in a common database.

ScanCheck^TM
Our ScanCheck functionality assists the operator in detecting Spine, Femur, Forearm and Total Body abnormalities. ScanCheck provides guidelines to minimize operator error through identification of potential measurement and/or analysis errors.

Automatic Scan Mode Detection
Depending on the size of the patient, our software automatically selects one of the scan modes for the DXA scan out of the four possible options – thick, standard, thin and small.