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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | September 18, 2018
From the September 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
“Now DuoFLEX has multiple points in the cables that rotate slightly,” said Thomas Rheineck, the chief executive officer of MR Instruments. “This rotation maximizes anatomical positioning for optimal imaging”.
The coils are third-party-approved by GE Healthcare and, new this year, Siemens Healthineers for most of their 1.5T and 3T MR scanners.
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“Customers want to only plug in and use coils that are supported by the MR OEMs,” Rheineck said. “This allows clients whose scanners are older to improve their image quality. If they’re newer systems, it expands their coil portfolio for broader based imaging applications.”
The DuoFLEX coils are a good supplement for OEM coils.
“If you have a Siemens head coil instead of a head/neck coil, for example, you can put two DuoFLEX 10-centimeter paddles anterior to the neck and image the cervical spine along with the brain,” Rheineck said.
The DuoFLEX coils are also compatible with older MRs that Rheineck said did not have good flex coils. And having two paddles of various sizes, a unique geometry, allows clinicians to scan any size patient.
“DuoFLEX can scan 100 percent of patients who walk in the door,” Rheineck said. “No one is turned away.”
The Lucy head holder and coil from Noras MRI Products
Noras MRI Products
This past spring, Noras released a combination of head holder and coil for intraoperative MR imaging during neurosurgery. Called Lucy, the head holder, made with radiotranslucent material with three fixation points instead of the usual seven, can also be used without the coils for intraoperative X-ray and CT scans.
Manuel Noras, the company’s chief executive officer, said the product can be used with Siemens’ MAGNETOM Aera and Skyra and that Noras was asked by Siemens to develop an established head holder.
Noras said that in developing the Lucy, it paid attention to the various clinicians who would be using it and made sure to tailor the workflow.
“It is important to see the workflow before using the coil and after using the coil,” Noras said. “Oftentimes, many specialties mix together – neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, nurses, OR staff. It has interfaces with navigation systems, OR tables and scanners. It’s fairly complex. You can’t compare it with a standard elbow coil.”
