OEMs unveil advanced suites
Philips announced an AI‑equipped multi‑energy spectral CT called Verida, and Cook Medical together with Siemens showed an integrated interventional MRI suite at the SIR meeting, marking new equipment offerings aimed at advanced diagnostics and procedural imaging. Both announcements point to continued OEM product activity in spectral and interventional imaging. (x.com) (x.com)
Philips and a Cook Medical-Siemens Healthineers partnership used recent medical meetings to roll out new imaging systems aimed at harder diagnoses and more image-guided procedures. (philips.com) (cookmedical.com) Computed tomography, or CT, builds cross-section images with X-rays; spectral CT adds multiple energy readings so scanners can sort materials that look similar on a standard scan. Philips said Verida is a detector-based spectral CT system that captures spectral results in a single scan without changing scan time. (philips.com) Philips announced Verida at the Radiological Society of North America meeting on November 30, 2025, and said the system is fully powered by artificial intelligence across acquisition and reconstruction. The company said Verida is CE-marked and still pending United States Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance. (philips.com) Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, uses magnetic fields instead of ionizing radiation; interventional MRI means doing needle-based procedures inside or beside that scanner for live soft-tissue guidance. Cook Medical and Siemens Healthineers said they unveiled a fully integrated interventional MRI suite at the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting in Toronto. (cookmedical.com) (interventionalnews.com) The Society of Interventional Radiology’s 2026 annual scientific meeting ran April 11-15 in Toronto, and Cook promoted an April 12 symposium around the suite on the exhibit floor. The companies said the setup is meant for soft-tissue targeting, biopsy and future ablation therapies in a radiation-free workflow. (sirweb.org) (cookmedical.com 1) (cookmedical.com 2) Philips is pitching Verida into a CT market where vendors are trying to get more information from each scan without adding extra exams. The company said detector-based spectral CT has already produced more than 800 peer-reviewed publications and that Verida adds artificial intelligence to reduce noise, speed reconstruction and cut energy use by as much as 45%. (philips.com) Cook and Siemens are pushing MRI-guided intervention from a niche technique toward a packaged room, device and workflow offering. Siemens said the suite centers on its MAGNETOM Free.XL system, while Cook said the partnership includes MRI-compatible devices, training and clinical support. (siemens-healthineers.com) (cookmedical.com) The partnership itself predates the SIR display. Siemens announced the collaboration in September 2025 and said Cook was developing devices specifically for the MRI environment, a step meant to address one of the main barriers to wider MRI-guided procedures. (siemens-healthineers.com) Neither announcement came with broad hospital rollout numbers or pricing. What they did show is that large original equipment manufacturers are still adding new hardware, software and room-design packages in spectral CT and procedural imaging as hospitals weigh where to place their next capital bets. (philips.com) (cookmedical.com)
