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Every image counts and every patient deserves the best care. With MUSICA™ image processing, you can deliver the image quality and content needed for a confident diagnosis, within a seamless and efficient workflow!
. Always delivers consistent, high quality results, independent of collimation or direct exposure areas
. Enhances the visibility of all clinically relevant structures, regardless of frequency content
. Offers maximum ease of use and optimum image output every time, regardless of collimation, body part, modality or patient position
. Can be flexibly finetuned to match tastes and preferences, enabling improved diagnostic confidence
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.
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.
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“ The image quality is exceptional! MUSICA and the DR 600 are keeping the imaging workflow smooth and efficient, while meeting the quality and dose reduction needs for patients and staff. 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.”
” Upgrading to DR will make our imaging more efficient overall. But with the MUSICA Chest+ for gridless bedside chest imaging, our mobile imaging in particular will see a big increase in productivity, as well as in comfort for both staff and patients.”
“Having the digital tomosynthesis with our DR 800 offers us an additional imaging choice that speeds up diagnosis. It reveals things that might not be visible with classical X-ray. Yet it can be done without moving the patient from the X-ray department.”
This Whitepaper provides deeper insights into Dynamic Imaging, which has been successfully introduced along with a number of other features and improvements for optimal fluoroscopy and Rapid Sequence imaging.
Image quality from mobile radiography presents specific challenges. This study covers the evaluation and re-confirmation of the image quality produced by Agfa Radiology Solutions’ DR 100s mobile system.
This white paper investigates the value of Fractional Multiscale image Processing (FMP) for creating a dedicated PICC image.
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.
This white paper demonstrates MUSICA’s advanced Fractional Multiscale Processing (FMP) technology for these (difficult) bedside chest exposures, and shows how Agfa uses state‑of-the-art technology to improve the delivery of quality daily care for critically ill patients, as stated by a participating radiologist.
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.
To determine the effect of Cesium phosphors on image quality and dose, a technical assessment and an image quality evaluation with radiologists was conducted. The goal of this evaluation was to determine how much patient exposure (and dose) could be reduced while providing the same or similar image quality when comparing conventional BaFBr plate CR system to CsBr needle plate CR system and CsI needle scintillator DR detector when processed with Agfa’s MUSICA image processing.
Agfa carried out another large-scale study to objectify and re-confirm image quality for dynamic or semi-dynamic procedures (fluoroscopy, DSA and Roadmapping, digital tomosynthesis, etc.). The study involved several hospitals in Germany, Spain and Italy, as well as six independent radiologists reading the sequences. This white paper highlights and illustrates the methods and most relevant outcomes of this study.
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
