GE Healthcare Names New 3.0T MRI System for Today’s Healthcare Heroes
GE Healthcare has launched the SIGNA Heroi, a 3.0T MRI system honoring healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This new system, designed to tackle challenges in radiology, features improved image quality, enhanced workflows, and increased patient comfort. SIGNA Hero incorporates AIR Recon DL technology, reducing exam times by 30-50% and accommodating diverse patient needs with a 70 cm bore. Additionally, the system emphasizes sustainability by lowering helium usage by up to 67%. With positive feedback from clinical users, SIGNA Hero aims to simplify complex exams and improve operational efficiency.
- Launch of SIGNA Hero MRI system aimed at improving patient care.
- 30-50% reduction in exam times due to AIR Recon DL technology.
- Enhanced patient comfort with a 70 cm bore and detachable table.
- Sustainability benefits, including a 67% reduction in helium usage.
- SIGNA Hero is not yet commercially available in the US or EU.
- COVID-19 pandemic caused a 35% drop in MRI procedure volume in 2020.
“True heroes are built for any challenge, and today’s healthcare workers have proven themselves true heroes,” says
Healthcare systems – and radiology departments in particular – face more strain than ever. In
To help address these challenges,
“Prior to going live, we were doing on average 10-12 patients a day. With AIR Recon DL, we were able to add four time slots a day on average,” explains Dr.
To date, AIR Recon DL has benefited nearly one million patients around the world, and feedback from clinical users has been overwhelmingly positive – including observations of sharper and less noisy images.
Stenoien adds: “We were seeing a dramatic reduction in scan times. One of our first patients was a pituitary scan; 30 minutes 40 seconds. In January on the same scanner, the scan was 14 minutes and 42 seconds, a 52 percent reduction. And when I sent those images to my neuroradiologist, I immediately got a phone call to ask what in the world had happened. It was the prettiest pituitary scan she’d ever seen.”
Now, at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2021 Annual Meeting,
Furthermore, clinicians can scan multiple organs simultaneously and with fewer patient adjustments using whole-body imaging. Combined with GE Healthcare’s patented AIR Coils, clinicians have total freedom in coil positioning and handling during an MRI scan. Each coil is lightweight and flexible to closely wrap around patients, like a blanket, to fit each patients’ form – helping them achieve the best results possible.
This feature is especially useful in light of today’s disease burden. For example, prostate imaging – a traditionally uncomfortable experience – is now much faster, simpler and more comfortable with wing-to-wing clinical solutions like One Stop Prostate imaging with AIR Coils and AIR Recon DL, which can complete the patient scan in less than 15 minutes.
Additionally, AIR Touch and AIR x leverage the power of GE Healthcare’s Edison platform to help daily practice run smoother. To begin, AIR Touch dramatically simplifies scan set up for technologists, reducing set up time by up to 37 percent with automated coil selection and landmarking that optimizes key elements in the coil configuration automatically to get an excellent image for every patient, while using the full power of each coil. Then, AIR x provides automated slice prescriptions to help reduce previously redundant, manual steps. The AI-based, automated workflow tool for brain and knee scanning helps increase consistency and productivity for greater operational efficiency.
Finally, GE Healthcare’s built-in, instantly accessible Digital Ecosystem provides immediate expert support and coaching to seamlessly educate staff, manage department protocols, and remotely update scanner software at times that best suit department schedules.
For more information on GE Healthcare’s MR portfolio and SIGNA Hero system, see gehealthcare.com or visit the company’s #RSNA21 booth in person or virtually.
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i SIGNA™ Hero is 510(k) pending at FDA. Not yet CE Marked. Not available for sale in
ii AIR Recon DL 3D and PROPELLER are 510(k) pending at the FDA. Not CE marked. Not available for sale in
iii IMV Medical Information Division. 2020 MR Market Outlook Report.
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