The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared GE Healthcare's Discovery MR750w wide-bore 3-tesla system with the GEM Suite (geometry embracing method) of coils.
The new unit accommodates patients who are difficult to scan, such as larger, claustrophobic, elderly, or very young patients, or those who are in pain and require a larger imaging system, according to GE. Discovery MR750w includes a 70-cm wide bore and a 50 x 50 x 50-cm field-of-view.
GE's GEM Suite includes a high-density GEM posterior-array coil embedded within the detachable patient table, a GEM head-and-neck coil with comfort tilt, a GEM anterior-array coil, and a GEM peripheral vascular/lower extremity array coil, the company said.
