Cath lab system is X-ray imaging system which is used under interventional treatment to treat patients with angina or cardiac infarct by using cathether. Intervention, which is less invasive treatment compared to surgery operation, recently attracts more attention, and more rapid development has been seen with downsizing and device qualification, reduction of contrast media, and establishment of the treatment.
Such clinical trend generates an expectation to worldwide cath lab systems to encourage both low dose and high image quality simultaneously, which is even capable to support various anatomical regions, and various treatment and diagnosis by using various devices. Shimadzu’s development policy is to reduce patients’ and physicians’ burden, and to be supportive for whole body part, not only for cardiac region, but also for neuro, abdominal, and peripheral regions.