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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | September 18, 2018
From the September 2018 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
The first MAGNETOM Terra was installed in October at the Mayo Clinic and the first patient was scanned clinically in December.
While facilities may not be able to invest right away in the MAGNETOM Terra, Carpenter noted that a lot of the work on the technology of the system has migrated into the company’s 1.5T and 3T products.
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“Historically, the acquisition of extremely high-resolution 7T images could take a long time,” Carpenter said. “However, key technologies have been developed to acquire data more rapidly. Much of this is now brought to other 1.5T and 3T scanners. The whole Siemens Healthineers MR portfolio is benefiting from the ongoing 7T development.”
The scanner has a zero-helium boil-off magnet, which the company said is 50 percent lighter than any other 7T magnet and can easily be installed even on the upper floors of a facility.
Carpenter notes that the MAGNETOM Terra is a draw from a marketing perspective for facilities large or small.
“Patients are now are asking about the system,” Carpenter said. “It’s really a beacon that can draw academic talent and patients from around the world.”
Siemens Healthineers' BioMatrix Head / Neck 20 coil
Siemens Healthineers has also been developing new coils for its 3T MR systems. The company recently released the Contour 24, a flexible24-element abdominal coil for use with the MAGNETOM Skyra.
“Our coils have always been ultra-light compared to all of our competitors – oftentimes 50 percent lighter,” said Wesley Gilson, MR product manager at Siemens Healthineers North America.
Last year, the FDA cleared the company’s MAGNETOM Vida 3T scanner, and along with the system the company released a new BioMatrix technology that is integrated with the company's Tim 4G coil technology and that aims to reduce unwanted variability in MR exams.
The BioMatrix Head/Neck 20 is a 20-element coil that can be tilted to multiple angles for proper patient positioning, and BioMatrix Head/Neck 64, a 64-element coil that is useful for accelerating advanced diffusion tensor imaging. Both coils have coil shim to adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field in the neck region.
Siemens Healthineers also released its BioMatrix Spine 32 and BioMatrix Spine 72 spine coils, which come with built-in respiratory sensors that detect when a patient is breathing.
