Your first image, is the right one
MUSICA™ – Multi-Scale Image Contrast Amplification – is a patented image processing that directly improves image quality and the exam workflow for both radiographers and radiologists. MUSICA™ results in more detail in images for a confident and comfortable reading.
with the Catheter companion image
with Digital Tomosynthesis
with MUSICA™ 3
with MUSICA™ 3+
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Dynamic MUSICA™ enhances temporal noise suppression as well as brightness and density stabilization to dynamic imaging studies.
MUSICA’s Fractional Multiscale Processing technology automatically analyzes the layers of each raw image and optimizes the processing parameters, independent of body part or dose deviation. It enhances noise suppression, offers brightness control, reduces veiling glare, and plays a significant role in enabling potential dose reduction. The result is excellent image quality compared to standard image processing, for both bone and soft tissue.
In order to render the most difficult zones of an image, such as the abrupt transitions from low to high density areas, we have applied a mathematical algorithm, called Fractional Multiscale Processing (FMP). With this algorithm, the image processing filters are further decomposed to elementary fractions, which are processed separately. As a result, we can represent the grayscale differences in a more natural way, without artifacts.
FMP also eliminates the need for window level adjustment to enhance visibility of details.
Subtle bone details often tend to fade in the vicinity of implant edges, but with the next generation MUSICA, these details are well preserved and easily visible.I compare it to being able to hear a pianissimo passage after an explosion.
The image quality is exceptional. The fact that we don’t need to adjust the images has a lot of advantages: image quality, workflow, efficiency… we save a lot of time. And we are also getting a consistent appearance to our images, which is important for referrers and clinicians.
The image quality is exceptional.
The fact that we don’t need to adjust the images has a lot of advantages: image quality, workflow, efficiency… we save a lot of time.
And we are also getting a consistent appearance to our images, which is important for referrers and clinicians.
MUSICA image processing is so sharp, so much sharper than people are used to! You can identify things you just couldn’t see before.
A study evaluating the ability of image processing to improve the visualization of central catheter tip positioning in newborns was recently published in BMC Medical Imaging.
The authors found that Agfa’s MUSICA® Catheter Processing with Fractional Multiscale Processing (FMP) technology significantly improved the perception of low contrast PICC line tips in digital chest X-rays, compared to standard image processing.
A clinical experience rated MUSICA3™+ non-grid images significantly higher than the MUSICA2™ images acquired with or without a grid.
For mobile non-grid imaging, optimal lung field visualization as provided by MUSICA3™+, was seen by the radiologists as the most important aspect of a bedside chest examination. This potentially outweighs the additional improvement of the mediastinum gained by using a physical anti-scatter grid with MUSICA2™ Genrad processing at a 1.6x higher exposure.
A study involved five individual hospitals in Germany, six independent radiologists, and data collected over more than two years. All relevant body parts and exam types, both for adult and pediatric X-ray imaging, were included.
Conclusion is that only half of the dose prescribed by Germany’s NDRLs is required close-to-maximum image quality and diagnostic confidence. The study also confirms with high statistical confidence (95% confidence level, 80% power) the diagnostic usability and quality of images created by Agfa DR systems using MUSICA™ and CsI DR detector technology.
Several musculoskeletal cases are presented with indications, imaging examples (2D and DTS). The main advantages (value proposition) of Agfa’s digital tomosynthesis can be summarized as follows: • Improved triage, by making the x-ray exam more definitive • Little or no patient repositioning is required to obtain the necessary clinical information • A significantly lower dose is required compared to CT, even low-dose CT.
Notohamiprodjo, S., Roeper, K.M., Mueck, F.G. et al. Advances in multiscale image processing and its effects on image quality in skeletal radiography. Sci Rep 12, 4726 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08699-8
