Wash. center installs extremity MRI scanner
Diagnostic Imaging Northwest (DINW) has installed the GE Optima 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner, a high-field extremity MRI system.
Designed to be more comfortable than a full-body MRI system, the GE Optima is intended for patients needing an MRI exam of extremities such as the elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle and foot.
During the scan, patients sit in a chair beside the open-magnet scanner and only the targeted body part goes into the system, which insures less motion and clearer, more consistent images, according to Waukesha, Wis.-based GE.
Designed to be more comfortable than a full-body MRI system, the GE Optima is intended for patients needing an MRI exam of extremities such as the elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle and foot.
During the scan, patients sit in a chair beside the open-magnet scanner and only the targeted body part goes into the system, which insures less motion and clearer, more consistent images, according to Waukesha, Wis.-based GE.