FieldStrength MRI Magazine

Eric Jean, General Manager MRI at Philips Healthcare, introduces this issue of FieldStrength that features users who have brought the innovations of our latest products to the clinical setting to benefit their patients.

Philips MR at RSNA 2012

The Philips booth displays Ingenia accelerating patient care, Ingenia’s dStream technology now available for Achieva, Intera, Ingenia MR-OR for convenient intra-operative MRI, IntelliSpace Portal for viewing and processing virtually anywhere, and the Multiva 1.5T* MRI system.

Dr. Willinek, University of Bonn, Germany, is convinced that the Philips Ingenia 3.0T provides a major change in MRI. He sees prostate imaging and MRI-guided prostate biopsies as two of the principal beneficiaries of this system.

At European Centre of Health Otwock, Poland, Dr. Kownacki sees beautiful images from Achieva 3.0T TX with MultiTransmit and the mDIXON technique. With high SNR and excellent image uniformity, delineation of anatomy is outstanding.

Ingenia 3.0T is the first Philips MRI system of Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Japan. It helped improve liver imaging, it excels in breast imaging and enables extremely fast whole body DWI, less than 1:30 min per stack.

The combination of Ingenia’s high SNR and the dS Torso coil is ideal for the high volume of cardiac work at OHSU, providing the beautiful image quality necessary for diagnostic confidence.

Ingenia 3.0T with MultiTransmit 4D has enabled German Heart Institute Berlin (Berlin Germany) to impressively improve their cardiac imaging. Particularly, SSFP functional cine imaging is yielding superb overall image quality.

Radiologists at University of Bonn point out impressive performance of their Ingenia 3.0T in pediatric imaging. The combination of high resolution, high speed and large bore produces excellent imaging and makes handling of young children easier.

Clinicians at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, invest Ingenia’s high SNR to get a much larger coverage while maintaining spatial resolution and speed. This can avoid the need for additional CT and increases diagnostic confidence.

Barrow Neurological Institute’s new partnership with Philips uses an Ingenia 3.0T to research new and faster imaging techniques, including spiral imaging. And learning to use Ingenia was easier than expected for Barrow research technologist.

Ingenia’s dStream architecture delivering high SNR and superb dS-SENSE performance provides opportunity to create new liver imaging strategies. Ingenia users can use higher SENSE factors than before to increase image quality and reduce exam times.

Options and upgrades

You may be able to add some of functionality described in this issue to your current system. You may like to add mDIXON to your scanner. Or you may want to step up to a fully digital platform with SmartPath to dStream.

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