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Pediatric MRICaring for our youngest and most vulnerable

Diagnostic MR imaging of children1 can be very challenging. Siemens Healthineers' trendsetting solutions help overcome many of these challenges to enable high-quality, high-resolution, diagnostic imaging of all body regions.

Introducing MINITOM Kids

Gerda, the Brave Giraffe!

MINITOM Kids learning and educational device is our newest contribution to pediatric patient experience. This child-sized model scanner was created to resemble both our CT and MR systems. It allows children to become familiar with the scan process through interactive exploration.

MINITOM Kids includes a moveable table, a button that creates scan noises, and a tunnel under the scanner which children can use to practice lying still in the bore. The attached tablet demonstrates how Gerda, the Brave Giraffe which children will recognize from the pediatric patient preparation children's book is scanned.

Unrivaled speed in MRI 

Siemens - Pediatric MRI - Help reducing fear and anxiety before an MR exam

Deep Resolve

Our AI-powered Deep Resolve technology is at the forefront of the revolution in MRI acceleration. The advanced algorithms for noise reduction and high resolution MRI are specifically tailored for maximum productivity. Deep Resolve delivers our fastest MRI, delivering images of extraordinary clarity, higher clinical productivity, and a better patient experience. 

Our reference in 3T Pediatric MRI 

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Pediatric imaging Deep Resolve

Image courtesy of Oslo University Hospital Norway. Study-ID: 0aaaa0013

Patient Case 1 – Pediatric Knee

Young female with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Pediatric imaging Deep Resolve
Pediatric imaging Deep Resolve
Pediatric MRI Deep Resolve
Pediatric MRI Deep Resolve
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Improving Patient Experience

Siemens - Pediatric MRI - Help reducing fear and anxiety before an MR exam

Imaging children poses challenges, such as different disease types, different physiology and behavior – all have a direct impact on MRI pediatric imaging. Learn about our complete spectrum of solutions to overcome these challenges and create a safe, efficient, and child-friendly environment.

Help reduce fear and anxiety before an MRI exam 

Good patient preparation has been shown to reduce the need for sedation in pediatric patients undergoing MRI exams. Siemens Healthineers is dedicated to helping customers enhance the pediatric patient experience across all diagnostic imaging modalities. Our delightful pediatric patient experience materials include the Gerda booklet, audiobook, Magic Song, braveness medals, animal stickers, and our new child-sized educational scanner MINITOM Kids. These tools help children to become familiar with the scan process through imagination and exploration.

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Child-centered patient preparation

Listen to Dr. med. Friederike Prüfer, Head of Radiology, UKBB, Switzerland

Pediatric experience materials, girl reading Gerda the giraffe book
Pediatric experience - MINITOM Kids
Pediatric experience materials - braveness medal, animal stickers, and plush Gerda help children to stay brave during the whole examination process
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Quiet Suite - Imaging is to be seen, not heard

Reduce sound pressure by up to 97%2

Quiet Suite lets you improve pediatric patients' experience significantly. Now you can conduct complete, quiet neurological and orthopedic exams, with no compromises in image quality.

Your benefits:

  • Reduced risks with pediatric and fetal imaging
  • No compromises in image quality
  • Reduced need for sedation and/or rescans
  • Optimized patient comfort, especially for delicate patients

Applications and Clinical Use

University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Expand pediatric MRI beyond brain imaging

A wide range of revolutionary features and applications gives you high-quality, high-resolution images, even in challenging cases. From free-breathing abdominal imaging, extremely short breathholds, to high-resolution DWI – we revolutionize what's possible.

Free-breathing dynamic liver imaging with Compressed Sensing GRASP-VIBE (Courtesy of Jan Yperman Hospital, Ieper, Belgium.)

Free-breathing, contrast-enhanced body imaging

Children, may not be able to hold their breath for contrast-enhanced imaging of the abdomen. Compressed Sensing GRASP-VIBE is a Siemens unique technology to make free-breathing and dynamic contrast-enhanced exams possible.

Your benefits:

  • Patients can breathe freely throughout the scan
  • High-resolution, dynamic images free from motion artifacts 
Liver imaging with CAIPIRINHA
Liver imaging with CAIPIRINHA

High-resolution 3D imaging with reduced breath-hold times

Liver imaging can now be performed in 10 seconds. CAIPIRINHA is a parallel imaging data acquisition technique that can be combined with 3D T1 VIBE or 3D Dixon and offers four contrasts (in phase, opposed phase, fat, and water) in a single breath-hold.

Your benefits:

  • Higher SNR
  • Higher PAT factors are enabled with excellent image quality
  • Used pattern distribute k-space points more uniformly
  • Reduced patient stress by reducing breath-holds
Drop metastases to the spine, 2 year old female
Drop metastases to the spine 2 year old female (Image: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, Atlanta, USA)

Outstanding diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI)

RESOLVE delivers diffusion-weighted images with high anatomical accuracy enabling better detection and delineation of small lesions in the brain and spine.

Your benefits:

  • High-quality, high-resolution DWI and DTI for brain and spine
  • Reduced susceptibility and blurring artifacts
  • Insensitivity to motion-induced phase errors
  • Reduced SAR in comparison to TSE-based methods
Deep Resolve Pediatric Protocols

Pediatric protocols using Deep Resolve 

Pediatric Coils

High-density

A comprehensive multi-organ modality

Even though children pose many unique challenges to diagnostic MR imaging, our users worldwide prove the modality's advantages for pediatric imaging, and why it is today the preferred imaging modality for many diseases that occur in childhood.
 

Light-weight, high-density, coils

Small, high-density coils close to the body are needed to ensure high-SNR, high-resolution, fast imaging without risk from excess weight.

Your benefits:

  • Coil Pediatric 16 for safe, comfortable positioning of infants and high-resolution imaging of the brain. It can be combined with the spine, body and flex coils for whole body imaging
  • Standard Body and Ultra-Flex coils: extremely light, flexible, and can be safely placed on or wrapped around a child
  • Special Purpose Coil for high-resolution, smaller-FoV imaging.
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MR scanning has not been established as safe for imaging fetuses and infants younger than two years of age. The physician must evaluate the benefits of the MR examination over other imaging procedures.
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