Metropolitan General was the first private hospital in Greece to install the state-of-the-art Philips Azurion 7 Biplane digital Angiography–Neuroradiology system, featuring pioneering technology to minimize radiation and deliver top image quality.
This angiography system opens new horizons in interventional radiology and interventional neuroradiology, enabling innovative procedures and treatments with the highest possible level of patient safety.
Technical Advantages
- Pioneering ClarityIQ technology that significantly reduces radiation dose, by up to 80%
- Biplane imaging with two X-ray tubes for top image quality
- Modern applications that enable a wide range of clinical procedures, including the most specialized and demanding
- Intuitive User Interface that reduces overall examination time by 20%
- 3D Roadmap three-dimensional vessel mapping techniques that offer greater safety, especially in difficult interventional procedures
- A 3D navigation system using the XperGuide technique for real-time biopsies and therapeutic procedures
- The XperCT Dual technique that produces computed tomography images
- The XperCT Open and Closed program for imaging tumors across the entire liver, including its periphery
- A specialized 2D Perfusion application for color perfusion imaging of vessels and tissues to detect perfusion disorders
- A very high-resolution brain vessel imaging program (VasoCT) for high accuracy in central nervous system interventions
- The Aneurysm Flow program that enables assessment of blood flow before and after endovascular aneurysm repair
- The Bolus Chase automatic diagnosis and imaging program for peripheral vessels, enabling peripheral vessel imaging with injection of a smaller amount of contrast medium