Siemens Healthineers presents AI-powered imaging chain for interventional systems
Siemens Healthineers has launched the imaging chain Optiq AI, powered by AI and designed to deliver higher quality low dose images for precise image-guided procedures. It will be available on the imaging platforms Artis genio, Artis icono.explore and Artis icono.vision/Artis pheno.vision.
As part of the image processing step, an AI-based algorithm reduces the noise introduced during image formation, such as from electronics, in real time. This benefits different 2D imaging modes including fluoroscopy, acquisition and digital subtraction angiography in the fields of interventional radiology, cardiology and minimally invasive surgery.
During image data acquisition, Optiq AI uses big data to automatically find the optimal parameter combination for a user’s set imaging needs. The parameter exposure control dynamically adjusts tube voltage, tube current, copper prefiltration, focal spot size, pulse width and detector dose while also considering source-image distance and collimation. If the system has to be moved or the angulation or collimation modified during a procedure, the parameters are automatically adjusted. This maintains the requested image quality and keeps the dose as low as reasonably achievable.
“The growing need for earlier-stage treatments raises the bar for image quality and this is where AI comes into play,” said Siemens Healthineers GB and Ireland advanced therapies business lead Giovanni Accardo. “With Optiq AI, we are unlocking AI’s potential for a new generation of interventional systems and are bringing it to all clinical fields.”
Director of cardiology Professor Samuel Sossalla and colleagues at Kerckhoff Clinic Bad Nauheim and University Clinic Giessen, Germany, have been working with the Artis genio floor and Artis icono.explore floor with Optiq AI. “You can really see a major breakthrough. AI-based noise reduction gives us razor-sharp images of very high quality, which are excellent to work with,” Professor Sossalla said.
Picture: German cardiology specialist Professor Samuel Sossalla is working with the Artis icono.explore floor with Optiq AI.
Read this report on page 3 of the February 2026 issue of RAD Magazine.
