Siemens Ltd’s Healthcare sector has installed Magnetom Aera 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner at Scans World in Chennai -- a new generation scanner with a combination of Tim 4G and Dot (Day optimizing throughput) engine.
Sources in the Scans World has claimed that this is the first 1.5T MRI scanner in India to incorporate both Tim 4G and Dot technologies – a combination of which delivers personalized patient care and improves productivity by 30 per cent every day, across the entire MRI workflow.
It is learnt that increasing number of radiologists in India is beginning to realize the huge potential of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. Siemens’ Tim (Total imaging matrix) technology based MRI systems have enabled radiologists to have a holistic understanding of the patient’s disease condition in a significantly shorter time.
Siemens Healthcare has, over the last several years, been consistently introducing new and innovative solutions in MRI. Continuing with this tradition, Siemens has now introduced Magnetom Aera 1.5T MRI system that comes with Siemens’ unique 4th generation Tim technology called Tim 4G. It offers an innovative radiofrequency (RF) system as well as an all-new ultra-high density coil architecture.
This new coil system packs more coil elements into a smaller space (204 coil elements that utilize up to 48 channels), which provides the physician with enough channels to support imaging, offering high resolution image quality while scanning the patient. In conventional systems, the availability of 102 coil elements with maximum 32 channels limited the scanning speed. In addition, Tim 4G also provides high signal-to-noise ratio and high processing speed, which improves the productivity of the scanner even further. Moreover, without coil or patient repositioning, Tim allows coverage of the whole patient body (up to 145 cm) to smallest details. The equipment has completely enhanced the whole body scanning process by providing the combination of faster scanning and high resolution image quality.
In the installation ceremony, Dr M D Ragavan, Country Head of Siemens Healthcare and Head-Health Imaging and Therapy, said, “Siemens has gained a clear market leadership position in the Indian MRI scanners segment by introducing new and innovative MRI platforms for the last several years. MAGNETOM Aera is another example of Siemens bringing innovative solution to provide quality healthcare in India”.
Dr Philson J Mukkada, managing director, Scans World commented, “At Scans World, we have installed the best and most hi-end machines with advanced software to aid better diagnostic capabilities. By installing Magnetom Aera 1.5T, the world’s most advanced MRI machine, we aim at providing world-class imaging service at affordable rates to enable our own population to receive the benefits of international standard diagnostic services.”
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