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The information presented in this application guide
is for illustration only and is not intended to be relied
upon by the reader for instruction as to the practice
of medicine. Any health care practitioner reading this
information is reminded that they must use their own
learning, training and expertise in dealing with their
individual patients.
This material does not substitute for that duty and is
not intended by Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., to
be used for any purpose in that regard. The drugs and
doses mentioned herein were specified to the best of
our knowledge. We assume no responsibility what is
over for the correctness of this information. Variations
may prove necessary for individual patients.
The treating physician bears the sole responsibility
for all of the parameters selected. The pertaining oper-
ating instructions must always be strictly followed
when operating the SOMATOM Sensation Cardiac.
The statutory source for the technical data are the
corresponding data sheets. To improve future versions
of this application guide, we would highly appreciate
your questions, suggestions and comments.
Please contact us:
CT Application Hotline:
Tel. no. +49-9191-18 80 88 (outside Germany)
0130-18 53 91 (in Germany)
Fax no. +49-9191-18 99 98
email: somatom.examinationprotocol@siemens.com
We express our sincere gratitude to the many customers
who contributed valuable input.
In addition I would like to stress at this point that the
SOMATOM Sensation Cardiac Application Guide is
based very much on the other SOMATOM Application
Guides which have been written by Dr. Xiao-Yan Chen,
Loke-Gie Haw and Bettina Klingemann.
Special thanks to Dr. med. Martin Heuschmid,
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen.
Editor: Ute Feuerlein