MRI developer Fonar has received the Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance for SymPulse, a computer platform designed to provide a single operating system for the vendor’s entire product line.
Melville, NY-based Fonar believes that SymPulse will dramatically reduce MRI image reconstruction times, provide higher data processing speeds, and decrease scanning time. Based on the Windows NT operating system and Intel processors, SymPulse will be able to take advantage of future advances in chip technology, according to Fonar.
Using SymPulse’s two ultra-high-speed symmetric multiprocessors, full-matrix resolution images have been achieved with standard imaging sequences in just one second, according to the firm. Owing to future improvements in multiprocessors, Fonar expects the system's performance to double by the end of 2001.
SymPulse also allows Fonar to offer MRI imaging techniques such as Single Shot FSE, MRCP, diffusion imaging, contrast-enhanced MRA, and direct fat saturation. In addition, the new system provides up to 200 GB of data storage, allowing users to store more than one million MR images on their local hard drive, according to Fonar.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersJanuary 30, 2001
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