From the November 2021 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine

Used for a broad range of neurological and musculoskeletal disease applications, SIGNA 7.0T can produce high-resolution imagery with attention to detail for research and clinical work on image anatomy, function, metabolism and microvasculature in the brain and joints. It was approved by the FDA in November 2020 and is expected to help with imaging research for disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and mild traumatic brain injury.

AIR Recon DL is developed on GE Healthcare's Edison Intelligence platform and is available as an upgrade or with new system purchases.


FDA clears Siemens MAGNETOM Free.Max MR requiring no quench pipe
The FDA gave Siemens Healthineers the green light for its MAGNETOM Free.Max MR system in July.

The High-V, compact whole-body scanner combines a 0.55 Tesla field strength with deep learning capabilities and advanced image processing. It weighs less than 3.5 tons, uses less than one liter of helium, and requires no quench pipe. This reduces life cycle and infrastructure costs and allows it to be placed in areas where MR has not been able to be used in before.

“By being brought into new places where MR perhaps hasn’t been before and where strong experience levels of staff don’t necessarily exist, this system is ideal in enabling less experienced technologists or even other healthcare professionals that aren’t technologists to be able to operate an MR system in an easy and efficient manner,” Kelly Parker, MR product manager for Siemens Healthineers North America, told HCB News.

Less than 80 inches high, MAGNETOM Free.Max is the most lightweight, compact whole-body scanner designed by Siemens. Its reduced size enables it to be installed with minimal structural modifications. The solution also is the first and only 80 cm wide-bore system available, and can scan extremely obese and claustrophobic patients for an enhanced patient experience.

Among its image processing and AI workflow tools is Siemens’ Deep Resolve, a set of algorithms that performs targeted denoising and sharpens images for higher-resolution with deep learning. It also is equipped with myExam Companion, which incorporates elements of AI to guide users of all experience levels during exams to achieve consistent, high-quality results, regardless of patient or throughput.

Using virtual reality to gamify (and reward) stillness for MR patients
Miami Cancer Institute announced in August it had teamed up with healthcare technology manufacturer Reimagine Well to create a virtual-reality experience for MR patients where staying perfectly still is rewarded in a gaming simulation.

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