This way, Zulekha Hospital will offer more convenience through speedy workflow to its patients who require tabletop MRI. The waiting time for repositioning and changing of coils manually will be eradicated with a significantly enhanced quality of scan. This technology at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai allows radiologists to acquire one complete planned scan or peripheral angiography in a single, continuous move.
Previously, patients had to wait for contrast to run through their veins and then reposition them selves to enable conventional MRI machines to scan. Although MRI imaging has been around for years, there has been a lot of application development lately. These vary from the everyday MRI, such as brain, spine, neck to musculoskeletal imaging, to emerging applications such as vascular, cardiac, breast and pediatric imaging.
CEO of Zulekha Healthcare Group , Ms. Zanubia Shams said, "Besides being workhorse scanners with a variety of emerging applications, the newer generations of 1.5 T systems have designs that are more patient friendly. A patient may physically move inside the scanner and still get a clear image."
The New TimCT system is used for conventional MR imaging for brain, spine, orthopedic imaging and also for advanced procedures like contrast-enhanced angiographies, body MR, cardiac procedures and brain spectroscopy. Besides being workhorse scanners with a variety of emerging applications, the newer generations of 1.5 T systems have designs that are more patient friendly. A patient may physically move inside the scanner and still get a clear image. The Avanto 1.5 T system is Siemens' first TIM (total imaging matrix) scanner and currently installed only at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai .