From the September 2022 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


“All in all, the clinical studies demonstrated that the product performs as advertised,” Jones said.

Siemens Healthineers
This year, Siemens Healthineers began offering Deep Resolve Boost and Deep Resolve Swift Brain, both of which were introduced at RSNA 2021 and cleared by the FDA in March. Boost and Swift Brain are part of the Deep Resolve family of AI technologies; an expanding collection of AI-based algorithms that perform intelligently targeted denoising, and create high-resolution images with faster scan times.
Deep Resolve Boost employs deep learning technology to reconstruct raw imaging data, enabling high signal-to-noise ratio at very fast image acquisition times. Deep Resolve Swift Brain for neurological imaging uses a multi-shot echo planar imaging (EPI) approach and enables a complete brain scan, including all five main contrasts, within two minutes.

Also part of the Deep Resolve family are Deep Resolve Sharp, which generates a high-resolution image from low-resolution input, and Deep Resolve Gain, which applies targeted denoising, allowing for twice the improvement in resolution, said Troy Havens, MR senior product marketing manager at Siemens Healthineers North America.

“A term a lot of our customers use is ‘MR equity,’ where they can use [Deep Resolve] to mark currency for faster scan time, higher resolution, or any combination in between,” Havens said.

The Deep Resolve technology is available on the MAGNETOM Sola and MAGNETOM Altea 1.5T systems and the MAGNETOM Vida and MAGNETOM Lumina 3T scanners.

Deep Resolve Boost and Swift Brain are available on MAGNETOM Vida, Vida Fit and Lumina 3T systems as part of the Boost package, while the rest of the technologies are available on the rest of the MAGNETOM family of scanners.

United Imaging
United Imaging recently submitted an application to the FDA for the next major software update for the uMR OMEGA, the world’s only ultra-wide-bore, high-field-strength scanner.

The uMR OMEGA comes with AI-based compressed sensing (ACS), which was FDA cleared for United Imaging’s uMR 780 scanner in 2020 but is now 510(k) pending for the uMR OMEGA. It also features DeepRecon, a raw-data-based deep learning reconstruction, additional AI-assisted EasyScan applications and 10 additional sequences for musculoskeletal, oncology, neurology and cardiovascular applications.

The new software, once available, will be delivered at no charge to United Imaging’s installed base under warranty or service agreement as part of the company’s Software Upgrades for Life program. Customers are also eligible for applications training to maximize their use of new techniques.

“We believe that commitment to upgrades and training is very important because it can increase applications for patients by continuously increasing clinical capabilities,” said Jeffrey Bundy, chief operating officer of United Imaging Healthcare Solutions, “and that, in turn, helps our customers grow their businesses and maximize their investment over time.”

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