FDA Clears Toshiba's AquilionONE

Toshiba America Medical Systems received FDA clearance for its AquilionONE, which it says is “the most advanced diagnostic imaging computed tomography (CT) equipment available.”

For the first time, physicians can see not only a 3-D depiction of an organ but also the organ’s dynamic blood flow and function, Toshiba said. Unlike any other CT system, the AquilionONE can scan one organ — including the heart, brain and others — in one rotation. This reduces exam time, as well as radiation and contrast dose, and increases diagnostic confidence.

With this clearance, Toshiba said it is on schedule to make the system commercially available in the summer of 2008.