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Newest MR scanners and coils are faster, lighter and tailored to customer and patient needs

by Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | September 18, 2018
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From the September 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


The company also recently released its BI 7 seven-channel breast biopsy coil, which was developed together with Siemens for use on the company’s MAGNETOM Vida and Sola scanners. The breast coil is sold through the MR division of Siemens’ OEM channel.

“We developed this coil exclusively for Siemens as a successor product for our BI 4 breast biopsy coil,” explained Noras.

Philips Healthcare's Ingenia Elition 3T scanner
Philips Healthcare
Philips has had two scanner releases in the last year.

At last year’s RSNA, the company debuted the MR Prodiva 1.5T, which is what Arjen Radder, global business leader for MR at Philips, calls a “workhorse” scanner with a 60-centimeter bore. With the release of the Prodiva, Philips also introduced a set of ultralight coils called Breeze Workflow.
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In June, Philips received FDA clearance for its Ingenia Elition 3T scanner, which features the company’s Compressed SENSE acceleration technology, which Radder said can reduce the average scan time by about 50 percent while maintaining image quality.

“We try to understand customer needs,” Radder said.

A Breeze Workflow body coil from Philips
The Elition comes with advanced MR technology, including VitalEye, an optical technology that sits in the bore and is able to track respiratory movement and perform motion correction, while a technology called VitalScreen guides patient setup.

Philips has also been promoting its newly developed BlueSeal Magnet, which Radder said only requires seven liters of helium, as opposed to the 1,500 liters of helium that most MR scanners utilize.

The company began promoting the BlueSeal Magnet in June at the ISMRM annual meeting in Paris.

Radder said the BlueSeal magnet will be linked to a new 1.5T scanner that is undergoing FDA clearance. Because of the lower helium use, it will be able to be installed in more locations in a typical facility. If there is a magnet quench, the amount of downtime will be significantly reduced.

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