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GE Healthcare
enCORE
Enhancing clinical assessment and productivity
Introducing
our next generation of bone
densitometry applications
GEs commitment to help protect the vitality of your patients and your
practice drives continuous improvements in our products. Refresh your
DXA system with our latest in clinical and productivity enhancements.
Check out just a few of the features available in enCORE version 15:
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT ENHANCEMENTS
Body composition1
Weight and body mass index do not provide a complete picture Color coded images give you the tools to help your
of metabolic health. Body composition analysis goes beyond the patients understand their body composition and visualize
obvious for a highly detailed, carefully measured representation changes over time.
of the condition of the body. By distinguishing among fat mass, Clear distinction of bone, fat and lean tissue
lean mass, and bone, the application gives you in-depth
Flexible user options to determine spectrum and
information you need to help make sound therapeutic decisions.
color displays
enCORE 15 is loaded with new features to help with the analysis.
Color mapping images2 give you the tools to help your
The Metabolic tab within enCORE reports the Resting Metabolic
patients understand where high areas of fat are located
Rate (RMR) and Relative Skeletal Muscle Index (RSMI), and gives
and visualize changes over time.
users the ability to enter hydration levels manually.
Different colors distinguish areas of high, medium
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) can serve as a baseline for and low fat.
determining the minimum nutritional needs of a patient. The
Flexible user options to define % fat thresholds and
RMR can be generated by selecting a method, such as Harris-
color displays
Benedict or Mifflin-St. Jeor, or by manually entering a value.
Color coding Color mapping
Relative Skeletal Mass Index Before After Before After
(RSMI) can be used to assess
the lean/fat distribution in the
arms and legs.
NEW FEATURE
For customers using external
devices to measure body
water, the following hydration
levels can be entered:
Total Body Water (TBW)
Intra-cellular Water (ICW)
Extra-cellular Water (ECW)
Trending of this data and other key fields are available
options through the reporting tools. The Body Comp
Advanced feature is required.
For customers with the CoreScan* feature, VAT (Visceral Adipose
Tissue) mass and volume wll be displayed on the tab called CoreScan
for patients 18 years of age or older. The CoreSan tab offers the option
to view current VAT results and to view graphical trending of previous
results. Additionally, a dedicated stylesheet has been included with the
composer reports to provide a comprehensive template for reporting
VAT results as part of a body composition assessment.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services
that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical
imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring
systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies,
performance improvement and performance solutions services help our
customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower
cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the
global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable
healthcare systems.
Our healthymagination vision for the future invites the world to join us on
our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs,
increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in
the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:
GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare
professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more
information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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