Darpan News Service
Chandigarh, 08 April: The Hon’ble Union Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Mr. Rajesh Bhushan, IAS, inaugurated A State of the Art Whole Body 3.0 Tesla MRI at PGI in the presence of
Prof. Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh on 7th April 2023.
The latest version of the globally most advanced 3 Tesla MRI machine was inaugurated in the Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging at PGI. This will help the patient care services at the institute and the long waitlist for MRI appointments at PGI will also be reduced with the help of this new MRI machine stated Prof. Vivek Lal, Director PGI.
There is currently No 3 Tesla MRI in Northern India with this much powerful hardware and software. The state-of-the-art powerful hardware combined together with Artificial Intelligence based advance applications (software) will help all the clinical specialties of the hospital to get better diagnosis and treatment planning. With a magnetic field strength that is twice as powerful as conventional 1.5 Tesla MRI, the new 3 Tesla MRI Machine provides extremely clear and vivid images of the human body. The new 3Tesla MRI Machine is ideal for Brain, Vascular, Musculoskeletal, small bone imaging and also functional imaging of the brain stated Prof. M.S.Sandhu, Head, Deptt. of Radiodiagnosis.
The Patient comfort and Experience will drastically improve with features like Wide bore and In-bore lighting for soothing experience. With upto 64 channel imaging in single scan field of view, high-resolution whole-body imaging will be possible. The Unique Biomatrix technology understands diversity in patient bodies and adapts the scanning accordingly. The “Quiet Suite” for upto 96% noise pressure reduction during scanning will comfort the patient. Artificial intelligence assisted planning for consistent superfast scanning will support the technical staff operating the system. The special “Accelerate” package drastically reduces the patient scanning times while widely improving the resolution of the examination being done, stated
Prof. Paramjeet Singh.
The advance MRI imaging capability on the new machine will give early insights for cancer detection and characterization, epilepsy and seizure disorders, sports injuries and rehabilitation, liver, pancreas, kidney, intestinal and other abdominal disorders, Spine anomalies, nerve compressions, white matter anomalies in brain, neonatal and pediatric disorders, cardiac morphology and viability, and whole body screening will all benefit to name a few.
The system is equipped with advance imaging for all body parts including High resolution Brain tractography, functional MRI, Spectroscopy, perfusion MRI, 4D Flow measurements, Liver elastography, fat quantification and automated liver volumetry, non-contrast perfusion and non-contrast vascular imaging, advance compressed sensing and simultaneous multi-slice imaging to name a few. For diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients applications like High Resolution Diffusion imaging, tumor load calculation and MRI guided Breast Biopsy will now be available said
Prof. Paramjeet Singh.