Zulekha Hospital acquires Syngio MRI

This way, Zulekha Hospital will offer more convenience through speedy workflow to its patients who require tabletop MRI. The waiting time for repositioning and changing of coils manually will be eradicated with a significantly enhanced quality of scan. This technology at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai allows radiologists to acquire one complete planned scan or peripheral angiography in a single, continuous move.

Previously, patients had to wait for contrast to run through their veins and then reposition them selves to enable conventional MRI machines to scan. Although MRI imaging has been around for years, there has been a lot of application development lately. These vary from the everyday MRI, such as brain, spine, neck to musculoskeletal imaging, to emerging applications such as vascular, cardiac, breast and pediatric imaging.

CEO of Zulekha Healthcare Group, Ms. Zanubia Shams said, 'Besides being workhorse scanners with a variety of emerging applications, the newer generations of 1.5 T systems have designs that are more patient friendly. A patient may physically move inside the scanner and still get a clear image.'

The New TimCT system is used for conventional MR imaging for brain, spine, orthopedic imaging and also for advanced procedures like contrast-enhanced angiographies, body MR, cardiac procedures and brain spectroscopy. Besides being workhorse scanners with a variety of emerging applications, the newer generations of 1.5 T systems have designs that are more patient friendly. A patient may physically move inside the scanner and still get a clear image. The Avanto 1.5 T system is Siemens' first TIM (total imaging matrix) scanner and currently installed only at Zulekha Hospital, Dubai.

Excellent brain imaging is an important application of 1.5T MRI systems including tremor patients ailing of Parkinson's disease. The technology also clears up the shadows created by the orbits when the eyes are moving. Blade can be used as a corrective technique for uncooperative, confused or elderly patients. Voluntary or subtle physiological motions can also be removed for the final images.

The additional benefits that Zulekha Hospital can extend to patients due to the new 1.5 T ultra-short MRI systems include - speeding up the scan (increased detection sensitivity and completeness), nearly noiseless scanning (acoustic noise reduction up to 90%) and increase patient- friendliness.

'With the Syngio MRI Scanner, we will provide more accurate and speedy scans thereby propelling the affectivity of our Radiology department at Dubai' said the President of Zulekha Healthcare Group, Mr. Taher Shams.