OEC Elite Settings

[au bon pain]

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For those using a GE Elite c-arm, what settings do you use to balance image quality with exposure?

I’ve started using one and on patients of all sizes the pedicle and/or TP is often poorly opacified.
Rad tech has the spine presents on, pulse and low dose on, and we collimate regularly (pretty much everything I did on my prior 10 year old machine). Tech can increase contrast/opacification with post-image processing options on the machine but that’s not sustainable from an efficiency perspective.
Tech is recommending going off low dose and doing standard with pulse…but after hearing all the positive feedback about this c-arm, I’m wondering if I’m missing something…am I?

Curious to learn what you wise folks here do. TIA

 

[ScawtyDawg]

I use this exact c-arm (2025 model) and the image quality on normal "spine" pre-setting is almost too good. I asked my rad techs about how to lower exposure and so we have switched to "pediatric" pre-setting, which is actually apparently the lowest dose possible for this model. I know that may sound stupid, but the reduction in mGy has been significant, and IMO the image quality has not been degraded too much -- images now kind of just look like low dose on a normal c-arm.

Although collimation is king, I believe switching to this mode is worth a try (and keep collimating). Hope that helps!