A number of innovative MR technologies is discussed in this edition of MAGNETOM Flash. For example, dedicated acceleration techniques implementing Compressed Sensing (GRASP-VIBE) to enable dynamic, free-breathing liver examinations in one comprehensive scan by the push of button and for every patient, making breath-holds and complex timing of several dynamic contrast phases unnecessary. Optimiz…
The articles in this issue cover fast and reproducible MRI with GOBrain, SMS and Compressed Sensing e.g. in population studies such as the UK Biobank. Another focus is precision medicine in oncological MRI especially whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging and treatment response assessment. In the technology chapter you’ll learn about prospective in-bore motion corrections and find an overview …
This issue contains numerous examples how you can achieve better outcomes at lower cost by expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery and improving patient experience. Padhani and Dalili show how quantitative whole-body MRI with DWI improves accuracy and advances therapy results by making it possible to positively assess therapy success while bringing objectivity to response asse…
Welcome MAGNETOM Sola, our newest 1.5T open-bore 70 cm system and the first 1.5T system with BioMatrix technology. Check out the image gallery in this special issue of MAGNETOM Flash and read how BioMatrix technology reduces unwarranted variations. For example, with in-bore head motion tracking with the Kineticor Sensor, or by accelerating MSK imaging with Simultaneous Multi-Slice TSE.
Every health system struggles with rising costs and varying quality. Read how your colleagues around the world turn today's challenges into opportunities by: Expanding precision medicine with BioMatrix technology for adaptive, reproducible and profitable imaging as shown by Hancock and Attenberger. But also by driving precision oncology for response assessment or RT planning as described by Pe…
High-speed acquisition techniques and BioMatrix make MRI available for all patient groups and allow for highly standardized and robust examinations. Ensuring that every patient fits is one aspect, but fast, free-breathing imaging, quiet, short bore systems, tiltable coils etc. ensure that patient’s feel comfortable and can be positioned comfortably. Read about new techniques in the RSNA editi…
Time consuming and difficult CMRI examinations only for cooperative patients in regular sinus rhythm are a thing of the past. With Compressed Sensing, the BioMatrix BeatSensor, Dot Engines and other technological advances, the simple, rapid CMR protocol even for patients who cannot hold their breath at all or have severe arrhythmia is now available. Several articles in this SCMR issue of MAGNET…
Challenges of pediatric MRI include anatomical, developmental, physiological, and behavioral issues. From coils and BioMatrix Sensors to non-contrast fast acquisition techniques all the way to improving patient experience this dedicated issue of MAGNETOM Flash presents ideas to improve diagnosis and care.
Increasing speed with Compressed Sensing, Simultaneous Multi-Slice, or BioMatrix; new technologies such as MR Fingerprinting; or flawless workflow with GO Technologies or syngo Virtual Cockpit – the articles in this ISMRM issue give proof of Jürgen Hennig’s expectation that “we can expect many more (radical) developments in MR in the years to come”.