ERLANGEN, November 27, 2016 -- At this year's Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, USA, the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG is presenting itself for the first time under its new brand name, Siemens Healthineers. The new name underlines the company's pioneering spirit and its engineering expertise in the healthcare industry. With a new strategic direction, Siemens Healthineers aims to enable healthcare providers around the world to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments. Through products and solutions designed to increase efficiency and to reduce costs, Siemens Healthineers is setting new trends in healthcare together with its customers – working under the motto "Engineering Success. Pioneering Healthcare. Together."

At the 2016 RSNA, Siemens Healthineers unveils a groundbreaking technology that overcomes one of the major limitations in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Acquisition times can sometimes be long, which presents a significant challenge when scanning moving physiology. With Compressed Sensing, MRI scans can now be performed in a fraction of the time previously required for examinations. Rather than lasting roughly six minutes, Cardiac Cine imaging can now take just 25 seconds when using Compressed Sensing2. This is made possible by an innovative algorithm that drastically reduces the amount of data acquired, speeding up image acquisition drastically. The MRI scanner can accommodate more cases, and new patient groups can be treated. This represents Siemens Healthineers' contribution to the competitiveness and economic situation of healthcare providers in spite of growing financial pressure.

"Compressed Sensing enables scanning speeds that we could only dream of before," says Dr. Christoph Zindel, Vice President of Magnetic Resonance at Siemens Healthineers. "Working close with our cooperation partners, we have really been able to pioneer this technology. Compressed Sensing Cardiac Cine is just the first step; we are already working together with our partners to expand this technology, and will bring further applications to the market," says Zindel.
Due in particular to the unparalleled levels of tissue contrast it offers, its comprehensive and radiation-free visualization of morphology and functionality, as well as its ability to support physicians in gaining high diagnostic certainty, MRI has become a fixed component in radiological imaging. For cardiac cases, it is widely considered the gold standard for evaluating heart function. Yet, this method has a clear disadvantage when it comes to moving organs: Due to the long acquisition times, some examinations are limited in their application. Further increasing MRI scan speeds is therefore of critical importance – and this is where Compressed Sensing comes in.

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