Toshiba America Medical Systems has introduced Excelart Vantage, a 1.5-tesla short-bore MRI scanner. The system, which was first shown as a work-in-progress at the 2002 RSNA meeting in Chicago, offers linear 30 mT/m gradients with a slew rate of 50 T/m/s or 130 T/m/s, according to the Tustin, CA-based vendor.
Toshiba also points to the high homogeneity of the magnet over a full 50-cm diameter spherical volume. A new and faster CPU platform provides patient throughput improvements and supports future upgrades, Toshiba said.
Other technology includes Toshiba’s SuperFASE (fast advanced spin echo) technology, BasicSoft anatomically oriented imaging protocol package, and Pianissimo scan noise reduction capability. Optional packages can add advanced EPI functional, perfusion, and diffusion techniques, peripheral MR angiography, cardiac imaging, and SuperFASE imaging for higher-resolution, high-speed 2-D and 3-D imaging or non-contrast perfusion and MRA studies, Toshiba said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersSeptember 11, 2003
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