Blackrock Clinic installs Ireland’s first Aera

With Blackrock Clinic’s new MRI are consultant cardiologist Dr Rory O’Hanlon, Siemens Healthcare multi-modality manager Sean Harrison, assistant director of nursing Daryl Simpson, Siemens Ireland healthcare sector head Kevin Dand, consultant radiologist Dr Christine Jennings, Blackrock Clinic ceo Bryan Harty, Siemens regional account manager Patrick Doherty and MRI clinical specialist Brenda McGuire.

The Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, has installed a Magnetom Aera 1.5T MRI system from Siemens Healthcare, the first to be installed in Ireland.  The system is being used predominantly for cardiac examinations as part of a specialised service offered by the hospital.

Dr Rory O’Hanlon, who previously worked with Professor Dudley Pennell and Dr Sanjay Prasad at the Royal Brompton CMR Unit in London, is the clinical director of the cardiac MRI service at Blackrock Clinic.  “With the Magnetom Aera we have the capacity to acquire images of unprecedented image quality thanks to the very high imaging performance of the system,” he said.

See the full report on page 15 of the September 2012 issue of RAD Magazine.