GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company, has launched in India, the High Definition Magnetic Resonance (HDMR) system. This technology, which was introduced in the US in December 2004, features 5 critical MR applications that have been developed or co-developed by GE's engineering and scientific teams located in Bangalore.

The world's first and only HDMR, as GE Healthcare claims, will, for the first time, provide physicians with unprecedented image clarity in cases where patients are difficult to image due to movement. This includes uncontrollable patient motion due to Parkinson's disease, trauma, stroke, general restlessness, anxiety and also paediatric patients who do not respond to sedation.

V Raja, president & CEO, GE Healthcare Technologies, South Asia says, "HD technology paves the way for an extremely wide range of targeted applications. This new MR technology now allows physicians to image patients where it was previously impossible to consistently obtain diagnostic images," said Raja. "Looking towards the future, GE Healthcare is developing disease-specific and patient-specific diagnostic 'systems' optimizing imaging equipment and imaging agents to produce synergistic, unparalleled results for patients," he added.

GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company that is headquartered in the United Kingdom.