Siemens SOMATOM Manual&Nbsp;

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Contents
Respiratory Gating 484
• Key Features 486
- Respiratory Gating 486
- Respiration Monitoring 486
- Respiration Synchronization 487
• Positioning of the respiratory sensor belt 488
• Scanning Information 490
- Scan Parameters 490
- Temporal Resolution 491
- Technical Principles 491
- Respiratory Triggering 491
- Respiratory gating 492
- Prospective respiratory triggering versus
retrospective respiratory gating 494
- Curve Editor 495
- Synthetic Trigger/Sync 497
• Workflow 498
- Reconstruction and Post processing 498
• Additional important Information 499
• Scan Protocol 500
- RespSeq 500
- Resp 502
- RespModBreathRate 504
- RespLowBreathRate 506
Children 508
• Overview 508
- General Hints 512
- Head Kernels 515
- Body Kernels 516
• Scan Protocols 518
- HeadRoutine 518
- HeadSeq 522
- InnerEarHR 526
- InnerEar 530
- InnerEarSeq 534
- SinusOrbit 538
- NeckRoutine 542

Siemens SOMATOM Specifications

General

Category	CT Scanner
Rotation Time	0.25 seconds
Tube Voltage	70-150 kV
Bore Size	78 cm
Max Table Load	250 kg
Gantry Aperture	78 cm
Table Weight Capacity	250 kg
X-ray Tube Voltage	70-150 kV
Scan Time per Rotation	0.25 seconds
Software	Syngo
Connectivity	DICOM