Siemens Healthineers said that Health Canada has licensed Magnetom Sola, the company's new 1.5-tesla MRI scanner with a 70-cm bore.
The system includes BioMatrix technology, first introduced in 2017 with Siemens' 3-tesla Magnetom Vida system. BioMatrix tuners automatically adapt to patient anatomy with CoilShim and Slice Adjust technology.
Magnetom Sola also comes with simultaneous multislice (SMS) technology that acquires multiple slices in parallel, as well as artificial intelligence (AI) that automates routine tasks. The scanner has low helium inventory, efficient energy management, and a completely new user environment, according to Siemens.
In other news, Siemens has formed a strategic partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to advance the quality of healthcare in South Carolina.
For instance, MUSC and Siemens team members plan to reduce the time it takes for severe stroke patients to receive treatment. The national standard for stroke care sets the goal at fewer than 90 minutes from entry to the hospital to the start of surgery. MUSC currently provides care below that marker but would like to improve its outcomes even more.
The partners plan to increase usage of "digital twin technology." A kind of AI, a digital twin is a replica of a physical asset, process, or system. The digital replica enables planning teams to determine the impact of changes that would be costly, if not impossible, to test in the real world, and it helps them forecast how well possible solutions or innovations may actually work.
The partnership will promote clinical innovation, research-driving development, and education, MUSC and Siemens added.
