Abdi Waluyo Hospital Has The First Naeotom Alpha In Southeast Asia

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Hospital Abdi Waluyo became the first hospital to use and install the first Naeotom Alpha scan CT in Southeast Asia, which will optimize diagnostic and treatment lines for patients in Indonesia. "We are very happy to be the first hospital in Southeast Asia to have Naeotom Alpha. With this revolutionary technology, we will witness the greatness of innovation to turn any possibility into reality, as well as shape the future of health services in Indonesia," said Director of Abdi Waluyo Hospital Dr. Prasetyo Andriono in a statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Saturday 27 May.

Naeotom Alpha is the first photon-counting CT in the world developed by Siemens Healthineers. Naeotom Alpha is a revolutionary medical imaging system that offers high-resolution images by using a minimum dose of radiation, providing spectral information at each scan, and increasing contrast to low levels of noise (disorder). This cutting-edge technology will help us in providing the highest care to patients, enabling us to detect and diagnose diseases more early and with much higher accuracy," he said.Naeotom Alpha imaging represents an important achievement in globally medical imaging, as well as in Indonesia.Implications of this Siemens Healthineers innovation will reach patients and doctors broadly and can bring major changes to CT scan imaging performance. This improves clinical value in order to achieve rapid and reliable diagnosis by improving image quality, where it can improve accuracy and certainty for doctors and patients. Naeotom Alpha is a major leap that redefines how high resolution can be used in CT scan imaging. This represents a major change in dose comparison and image quality; it offers a level of detail never existed before, however with a seminimally possible dose. Added, Naeotom Alpha uses telluride kadmium crystals in its CT detector that directly converts X-ray photons into electrical signals, without first turning them into light as done in conventional CT imaging. This will tackle the loss of information from standard energy integration detectors used in conventional CT systems, and produce sharper, clearer, and detailed images without requiring higher radiation doses. Radiology specialist at Abdi Waluyo Hospital, dr Sahat Matondang, Sp.Rad(K) states as a radiology specialist, it always seeks accurate and precision diagnosis.

"The ability of CT photon counting to detect changes in the density and composition of a smooth network can help us not only in finding a disease but also characterize its disease," he said. He added that by detecting and measuring the energies of each photon, photon-counting CT provides results with unmatched sensitivity and specificity of CT scans in general. While Country Head of Siemens Healthiners Indonesia, Alfred Fahringer stated that he is very proud to be able to provide and install Naeotom Alpha at Abdi Waluyo Hospital. "This is part of our commitment to providing access to the latest medical technology. With extraordinary image quality, low radiation doses as well as sophisticated features, Naeotom Alpha is ready to revolutionize CT imaging and improve examination results for patients," he said. He hopes to partner with more health service providers in Indonesia to present this innovative technology to patients in need.