Design News Magazine Honors Siemens Engineers With Global Innovation Award For E.CAM Profile Attenuation Correction.Business Editors, Health and Medical Writers HOFFMAN ESTATES Hoffman Estates A village of northeast Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Population: 49,700. , Ill.--(BW HealthWire)--March 28, 2000 Simple, economic shift and replenish design strategy cited for excellence At its 13th Annual Engineering Awards Banquet, Design News magazine recently honored Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Nuclear Medicine Group engineers with its prestigious Global Innovation Award. The award, given during Manufacturing Week in Chicago, recognizes Grant Albert and the rest of Siemens engineering team for their ground-breaking design of the E.CAM Gamma camera's Profile Attenuation Loss of signal power in a transmission. Attenuation The reduction in level of a transmitted quantity as a function of a parameter, usually distance. It is applied mainly to acoustic or electromagnetic waves and is expressed as the ratio of power densities. Correction system. "The Profile Attenuation Correction system designed by Grant Albert and his Siemens colleagues is truly an international achievement. It features components from international suppliers plus meets CE and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission as well as other global standards in regulation. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially it has vastly improved the accuracy of patient diagnostics all around the world,"said Larry Maloney, Design News' vice president, publisher and editorial director as he presented the Global Innovation Award to one of Profile's principle engineers Grant Albert. The simple mechanical shift and replenish strategy incorporated into Profile's design has lowered hospital operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , yet raised the effectiveness of clinical nuclear medicine imaging nuclear medicine imaging, n the diagnostic imaging field that evaluates organ function by injecting isotopes into a structure and documenting the amount of radiation emanating from the tissues. , added Maloney. "It is truly an honor and a privilege to accept an award that not only recognizes Siemens Profile Attenuation Correction system as an innovative medical technology and its shift and replenish design as a unique breakthrough, but that also honors the hard work, dedication and time that went into creating this technology and making the product globally acceptable," said Albert. "I feel extremely gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to have been a part of the team that developed the award winning Profile system. It is the "team" environment which Siemens encourages, that allowed us to bring the product from concept to production in only nine months," said Rainer Mayer, nuclear medicine project planner for Siemens Medical Systems. In conjunction with Design News, Omron Electronics Inc., headquartered in Schaumburg, IL, also presented Siemens with its new Omron Global Innovation Grant, for developing the Profile Attenuation Correction system. The grant, which provides $15,000 to the college of Albert's choice, will be presented to Albert's and Mayer's alma mater the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Profile attenuation correction is an innovative Siemens solution to the problematic effects of attenuation in clinical nuclear imaging--the reduction of detectable emissions due to the photoelectric Converting photons into electrons. When light is beamed onto a metal, electrons are released from its atoms. The higher the light frequency, the more electron energy released. Photonic sensors of all kinds work on this principle. They sense light and cause an electric current to flow. absorption and compton scattering In physics, Compton scattering or the Compton effect, is the decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray photon, when it interacts with matter. of photons as they pass through organs and other tissue. Profile attenuation correction employs a "multiple line array" design that combines the positive aspects of both sheet and scanning line sources, and profiles the transmission source strength so that the majority is directed to the center of the patient where attenuation is greatest. The shift and replenish design strategy of Siemens Profile Attenuation Correction system entails the movement or "shifting" of decaying multiple line array sources away from the center of the patient to the periphery of the body. Two new sources are then used to fill or "replenish" the vacancies in the center, while the weaker periphery sources are returned for recycling. This design feature significantly extends the working life of each line source. Siemens Medical Systems, Inc., Nuclear Medicine Group, based in Hoffman Estates, IL, develops and markets a wide range of nuclear medicine products. It is the U.S. affiliate of the Medical Engineering Group of Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. , a leading supplier to healthcare providers worldwide. Siemens Medical Engineering, Erlangen, Germany, employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide and reported annual sales of more than $5 billion. |
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