The Animal Neurology Center in St. Louis has become the first healthcare institution in the United States to install the Magnetom Flow.Ace, the first 1.5 tesla (T) platform for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging from Siemens Healthineers with a closed helium circuit and no quench pipe. The 60 cm bore system, which covers the entire range of MR applications, is also the first Siemens Healthineers MR scanner to be marketed for veterinary radiology as well as general radiology.
“Veterinary medicine facilities such as the Animal Neurology Center face a paradoxical challenge. We are more fiscally constrained than the general radiology community, but because we treat a wide variety of animal patients that are often quite small, we require high-end imaging equipment to generate high-quality images and overcome those constraints,” said Fred Wininger, VMD, MS, DACVIM, owner and veterinary neurologist/neurosurgeon, the Animal Neurology Center. “The Magnetom Flow.Ace provides us with the best of both worlds. It delivers premium imaging that meets the needs of our animal patients without being cost-prohibitive.” ¹
The Magnetom Flow.Ace uses only 0.7 liters of liquid helium for cooling—a fraction of the 1,000-plus liters used by conventional MRI scanners. It also doesn’t need a quench pipe, which was required previously to vent gaseous helium directly into the atmosphere during an emergency shutdown. This absence of a quench pipe, combined with the scanner’s small size, can reduce installation requirements and costs compared with those of other 1.5T MR scanners. The Magnetom Flow.Ace also deactivates energy-intensive components when they’re not in use.
“Siemens Healthineers is proud to provide the Animal Neurology Center with the nation’s first Magnetom Flow.Ace, which will provide its veterinary staff with the same top-tier magnetic resonance imaging technology for animals that has been available historically to human patients,” said Katie Grant, head of Magnetic Resonance at Siemens Healthineers North America.
The scanner’s Deep Resolve image reconstruction technology is based on artificial intelligence to enable shorter scan times with improved image quality. Its wide range of contour and dedicated MR coils are available for veterinary applications as well as a variety of human anatomies.
Additional information on the Magnetom Flow.Ace can be found here:
http://siemens-healthineers.us/flow-ace
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