MSK users’ meeting takes place at Barcelona

UK customers and Toshiba representatives view some of FC Barcelona’s trophies.

Toshiba Europe, Clinica Creu Blanca and Olea Medical invited Toshiba’s European customers to participate in a MRI MSK meeting held at FC Barcelona.  The main theme was advances in MRI for musculoskeletal imaging, especially for sports injuries.  Speakers were invited from both Europe and the USA, and included radiographers, radiologists and physicists.

In a lecture on chondral and osteochondral pathology, Dr Padron from Clinical Centro Madrid showed that MRI is increasingly moving from a qualitative to a quantitative approach for better comparison in follow-up examinations, commenting that the new ultra-short TE sequences from Toshiba Medical Systems give more accuracy than the previously used sequences.

During a live scan, a volunteer was used to demonstrate the fusion of US and MRI.  By synchronised fusion of an MRI 3D dataset during live ultrasound scans, the problem of imaging the deep structures which is difficult for ultrasound, is resolved by the MRI data and the scan time overall is faster using this technique.

The visit to Barcelona was concluded with a visit to the nearby Camp Nou and a guided tour of the stadium and grounds.

See the full report on page 16 of the February 2017 issue of RAD Magazine.