GE HealthCare today announced that its 100th Omni Legend digital PET/CT installation in the United States and Canada will take place at the newly completed UW Health Eastpark Medical Center in Madison. Additionally, less than a year after joining the Wisconsin BioHealth Tech Hub, GE HealthCare is advancing its mission to strengthen the region’s personalized medicine innovation and manufacturing ecosystem with the first North American production line for the system in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Omni Legend is designed to help meet growing healthcare system demands across care areas, including image quality in oncology, an ability to accommodate the anticipated increase in PET amyloid imaging volume related to Alzheimer's diagnosis in neurology, and imaging of a variety of cardiac tracers, including fast decay tracers and new tracers in cardiology.
GE HealthCare will now manufacture Omni Legend at its Waukesha facility, supporting the Wisconsin BioHealth Tech Hub's mission to lead in personalized medicine. This initiative, designated and funded by the US Department of Commerce and led by BioForward Wisconsin, leverages the state's healthcare assets to expand manufacturing, data sharing, and lab space while advancing breakthroughs in genomics, imaging, and big data analytics to meet future demands in theranostics and personalized care.
GE HealthCare’s Omni Legend PET/CT uses a high stopping power, digital detector system for more than two times the sensitivity of prior digital scanners, enabling faster scan times, and impressive small lesion detectability. With the reduced scan times and optimization of image quality, this system helps to address the increasing demand for imaging by enabling shorter scan time for higher patient throughput.
