Senographe Pristina™ - Mammography

In line with the forthcoming changes to the Breast Screening Guidelines, we are offering a 17% discount on our Senographe Pristina™ 3D upgrade.

Senographe Pristina™ 3D is a three-dimensional imaging technology that uses a low dose short X-ray sweep around a compressed breast. The acquired projection images are processed electronically in order to reconstruct a 3D representation of the entire breast. This imaging technique is designed to separate the tissues and to reduce the overlapping of structures, which represents a limiting factor in standard 2D mammography.

Senographe Pristina™ is the only FDA approved 3D mammography that delivers at the same low dose as 2D full-field digital mammography (FFDM) the lowest patient dose of all FDA approved systems. The platform is upgradeable to advanced applications, including contrast-enhanced mammography and biopsy.

• Sweep angle is 25° with 9 projections at any rotation angle between -160°/+160°.
• The “Step and Shoot” tube motion stops for each exposure to avoid image blur.
• Mo and Rh tube tracks create narrow X-ray spectra, exactly where the dose efficiency is for thin (Mo) and medium and thick breasts (Rh).
• Detector: 100 microns with no binning, typical Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE) in 3D mode (using the spectrum defined in International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 62220-1-2 at 5μGy): Typical values are 65% at 0.5lp/mm and 57% at 2lp/mm. Measurement accuracy is +/-2%.
• Automatic reconstruction of the images by using Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction (ASIR) Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) iterative algorithms.
• The dose of a DBT view is designed to be equivalent to the dose of a 2D standard acquisition of the same view.
• Capability to reconstruct 0.5mm or 1mm distance between tomo-planes.
• 3D and 2D mode allows the user to acquire in a single action a 3D sequence followed by 2D image for a given view, without releasing the compression.

This offer is over and above the standard discount available through the NHS Supply Chain framework agreement. The discount is a fixed term offer. All orders must be placed before 31 March 2027.