Genoray Launches the ACE Platform: BELLIGER ACE and VETERA ACE All-in-One Mobile C-Arms

Genoray has announced the ACE platform, a pair of mobile C-arms built around a single idea: put the detector, the generator, and the imaging workstation into one body and get rid of the separate monitor cart entirely.

Two models launch under the platform. The BELLIGER ACE is the human clinical system, aimed at orthopedics, pain management, spine, and vascular work. The VETERA ACE is the veterinary version, built for surgical guidance and interventional imaging in animal patients. Both run the same generator, the same C-arm geometry, and the same ZENIS IV Plus imaging software.

Here's what matters about each, and how to tell whether the platform fits your room.

The all-in-one design is the headline

Most mobile C-arms ship as two pieces: the C-arm gantry and a workstation cart tethered to it. That second cart eats floor space, adds a cable run across the room, and gives staff one more thing to reposition mid-case.

The ACE systems integrate the flat panel detector and the imaging workstation into the gantry itself. A 27-inch touchscreen monitor sits on an articulating arm off the main body, and no companion cart follows it into the room. For ASCs, office-based labs, smaller ORs, and veterinary procedure suites where floor space is genuinely scarce, that's a practical difference rather than a spec-sheet one.

Minimum installation space for either model is 2,500 × 2,500 × 2,500 mm, roughly an 8-by-8-foot footprint with about 8 feet of ceiling clearance.

Shared hardware across both models

The ACE systems share a common mechanical and generator platform:

The 860 mm free space is worth flagging. That's the clearance between the detector and the tube housing, and it determines whether you can position around a larger patient, a bulky table, or an awkward lateral without fighting the arm. Combined with 150° of orbital rotation and ±225° of oblique, the geometry is built to reach positions that tighter arms won't.

Detector choice

Both models offer two detector options, and the tradeoff is straightforward:

• 20 × 20 cm CMOS (GFT-100): 3.3 lp/mm maximum resolution, 1,344 × 1,320 pixel matrix, 150 µm pixel pitch, 14-bit sampling. The higher-resolution option.
• 21 × 21 cm a-Si TFT (Mercu0909F): 2.4 lp/mm, 1,024 × 1,024 matrix, 205 µm pixel pitch, 16-bit sampling, with a slightly larger active area at 209.9 × 209.9 mm.

Both run at 30 frames per second and post 50% DQE at 0.5 lp/mm.

ZENIS IV Plus: the software story

Both systems run Genoray's ZENIS IV Plus platform, which is where most of the day-to-day workflow lives.

Dynamic Noise Reduction (DNR) runs at selectable low, normal, and high levels to clean up image noise without a corresponding dose bump. Motion optimization and metal object optimization handle the two failure modes that most often ruin a fluoro image: patient movement and hardware artifact.

The interface adds a few things that sound minor and aren't:

• Real-time image comparison (swap): flip between the live image and a stored reference without leaving the live view. Useful for confirming screw trajectory or catheter position against a prior shot.
• Snapshot: capture a full-resolution still while running live fluoro, without switching modes.
• Style templates: three saved imaging profiles, so different surgeons on the same system aren't re-dialing settings every case.
• Image scroll: thumbnail-and-scroll review of stored images instead of clicking through one at a time.

Also included: last image hold, CINE capture and playback, automatic brightness control, manual kV and mA override, and DICOM workflow support over Ethernet.

Dose management

Both systems offer low, normal, and high-quality dose modes with adjustable dose levels, plus DAP and cumulative air kerma display for tracking exposure across a case.

The VETERA ACE spec sheet publishes specific numbers: low dose mode reduces the dose rate by 50% or more compared to normal mode, with a normal-mode limit under 88 mGy/min and a high-dose/HLC limit under 176 mGy/min. It also supports Radiation Dose Structured Reporting (RDSR).

One practical note from the documentation on both systems: the anti-scatter grid is removable, and Genoray recommends detaching it when running in low dose mode.

BELLIGER ACE: the human clinical system

The BELLIGER ACE targets orthopedics, pain management, spine, and vascular procedures, with documented applications extending to urology, GI surgery, neurosurgery, cardiac and angiographic work, stent placement, and needle placement.

It ships with anatomical presets tuned for hand, knee, thoracic, and spine imaging. Each preset adjusts contrast, noise reduction, and motion processing for the structures involved. The thoracic preset, for example, is set up specifically to pull vertebrae out from behind overlapping rib shadow.

Digital Subtraction Angiography is available as an option, along with roadmap functionality, for practices doing contrast-based vascular work.

VETERA ACE: built for veterinary use

The VETERA ACE is labeled for veterinary use only and is designed for fluoroscopic and digital spot imaging in diagnostic, interventional, and surgical animal procedures.

The meaningful difference from the human system is patient-size presetting. Rather than anatomy-based programs, the VETERA ACE uses patient size-based exposure settings, automatically adjusting exposure conditions and image processing for the selected size. That's the right approach when your patient population runs from a cat to a large-breed dog.

Other VETERA ACE specifics:

• Weight: 310 kg ±5%
• Dimensions: 800 mm wide × 1,865 mm deep, 1,808–2,308 mm tall through lift range
• Power: 200–230 V AC ±10%, 4.6 kVA, 50/60 Hz
• Collimator: manual and motor-driven, with virtual and automatic collimation and adjustable shutter blades that move without live X-ray
• Security: user login with admin/standard/CSE roles, 180-day password expiration, firewall and antivirus support
• Expected service life: 10 years

DSA and Road Map/RSA are optional on this model as well. Worth noting for anyone budgeting: the patient table is not supplied with the system, and any table used must meet applicable IEC standards.

Is the ACE platform right for your room?

The case for these systems is strongest where floor space is the binding constraint: ASCs, office-based labs, single-OR surgical practices, and veterinary hospitals running procedures in rooms that were never designed around imaging equipment. In those rooms, eliminating the workstation cart is worth more than another line item on a spec sheet.

The 3.2 kW generator puts these in the mid-power mobile C-arm class, which is well-matched to orthopedic, pain, spine, and general surgical fluoroscopy. Practices running high-volume, long-duration vascular cases should scope the duty cycle and cooling intervals against their actual case load before committing.

Interested in the Genoray ACE platform? Contact our team for configuration guidance, detector selection, and pricing on the BELLIGER ACE or VETERA ACE. We'll walk your room dimensions and case mix against the spec before you commit to anything.

Specifications sourced from Genoray BELLIGER ACE and VETERA ACE product documentation. Specifications may vary by model, configuration, and options.