MRI pioneer happy to see technology progress

Sir Peter Mansfield cuts the ribbon at the official opening ceremony watched by BMI Park Hospital executive director Kenneth Hay and diagnostic imaging manager Sarah Nicholson.

Forty years after coming up with an idea that would change the face of modern medicine, Nobel Prize winner Sir Peter Mansfield was special guest at the official opening of an MRI scanner at BMI The Park Hospital, Nottingham.

The GE Optima MR450w GEM suite scanner is wider and shorter in tunnel length than some standard machines so that it can accommodate larger patients as well as allowing patients as well as allowing patients as well as allowing patients to enter feet first, making it less intimidating for those suffering from claustrophobia.

Diagnostic imaging manager Sarah Nicholson explained: “As well as providing much faster, clearer images than our previous machine, it will enable us to scan body parts in ways we haven’t been able to in the past.  Advances in body imaging, head and neck work, and cardiac scanning are going to be a massive benefit to clinicians and patients alike.”

See the full report on the back page of the November 2013 issue of RAD Magazine.