CSCAN has chosen to install one of the most advanced MRI platforms available on the market today. GE’s Signa 1.5 Tesla 16 channel HDXT is more typically seen in hospital or research medical imaging departments rather than in private practice.
But the advantages gained by Newcastle residents far outweigh the extra time and resources we needed to install it.
Put simply, using the Signa HDXT, CSCAN can see anatomy more precisely and differentiate more pathology, in less time and more accurately than typical MRIs.
Two of the tools that allow this are “Cube” and “Ideal”
Cube 3D
2D MR imaging can limit your diagnostic options. Conventional MR imaging typically provides discrete slices in one plane only. So you must repeat the acquisition for every additional plane or evaluate images without the benefit of data provided from different angles. In addition, gaps between slices can eliminate vital information you need to make a confident diagnosis.
Cube replaces several slice-by-slice, plane-after-plane 2D acquisitions with a single 3D volume scan. So a Cube 3D isotropic image gives you every bit of information you need for evaluating even the smallest of lesions. You can easily reconstruct high-definition, sub-millimeter-resolution images from a single Cube acquisition into any plane you desire – without gaps and with the same resolution as the original plane in which it was acquired. And because the entire 3D story is captured in one time-efficient scan, you save exam time.
Benefits
- Obtain gapless, 3D high-definition, high-contrast image data in one scan
- Retrospectively review 3D data in any plane – axial, sagittal, coronal, oblique – without loss of resolution
- Visualize lesions as small as 2 mm with sub-millimeter isotropic voxels
- Avoid error or image retakes by never missing a region of interest
Ideal - one scan, four images
Uniform fat suppression
Multiple contrasts
IDEAL provides multiple contrasts – fat-only, water-only and combined fat/water in-phase and out-of-phase images – in one acquisition.
Minimal artifacts
IDEAL minimizes artifacts from chemical shift and metal implants.
