Alliance Medical takes delivery of the second AIR upgrade of the GE Signa Voyager 1.5T at West Middlesex MRI Centre
Alliance Medical provides medical imaging services to more than 700,000 patients in the UK each year, employing over 1000 people in a UK network of 65 centres and approximately 55 mobile scanners. Over the last 25 years, Alliance Medical has grown its MRI services and expanded its MRI mobile and modular solutions. GE Healthcare is proud to work in collaboration with Alliance Medical to ensure GE MRI scanners deliver the latest solutions and provide high-quality imaging for their customers.
The Alliance Medical MRI department at the West Middlesex Centre is delighted to receive the new GE Signa Voyager 1.5T AIR Coil technology.
James Berry said: “We are extremely delighted to continue the collaboration with GE on upgrading all the Signa Voyager MRI with the latest AIR Coils and AIR Recon reconstruction. The team at the West Middlesex MRI are the second site to receive this new technology in a short time.”
Signa Voyager enables the department to deliver superior diagnostic imaging while increasing productivity, halving setup and table times with AIR Touch, enhancing patient experience, as well as boosting image quality with the ultra-light and hyper-flexible 16ch AA AIR Coil. The technology improves IQ without trade-offs, with the intelligent built-in reconstruction algorithm AIR Recon.
Francisco II Turingan, senior radiographer (MRI), West Middlesex MRI said: “The patients are already seeing the benefits of the upgrade. The lightweight AIR Coil is providing a more comfortable experience, especially for post-operative patients. We are also seeing the benefits of the flexibility in placing it on larger patients as the AIR Coil can cover a wide area compared to a standard anterior array. The AIR Coil technology also speeds up the scan by accelerating the scanning sequences without compromising the resolution that much as compared to the conventional anterior array coil, maintaining the required diagnostic quality – this is advantageous especially for a claustrophobic patient that wants the scan to be done in shorter scanning time.”
Edith Bendana, lead MRI radiographer, added: “We are very happy to have this Air Coil with Air Recon. The AIR combination has dramatically improved image quality by acquiring thinner slices with reduced scan time. Overall, we are very proud to be able to offer this great technology to the patients that come to the West Middlesex MRI Unit.”
Picture: Lead radiographer Edith Bendana, senior radiographer Francisco II Turingan, unit manager Karen Clarke, West Middlesex MRI Centre.
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