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“The design of the new scanner with its wide bore and shorter bed will give patients extra room and help reduce patient fear, anxiety and claustrophobia. It will give us sharper images, allow new imaging techniques and provide a much more efficient service for patients. With the added improvements to privacy and dignity, we will be able to offer a truly world-class radiology service to our patients.”
Nick Sanderson
Lead Radiographer for MR Imaging at UHSM
UK's first Siemens wide-bore MR scanner at UHSM
UHSM is investing £1.5 million in a new leading-edge Magnetic Resonance (MR) scanner which will offer patients a more comfortable experience. The scanner will use the very latest innovations in MR imaging, providing superb high-resolution images, and it will also allow more patients to be scanned each day, increasing the number of patient examinations by around 30%.
The new scanner from Siemens makes MR examinations more comfortable for the patient due to the improved ‘Wide Bore’ design and roominess of the scanner. UHSM is the first hospital in the UK to install this new Siemens MAGNETOM Aera Scanner. The advantages include completely new magnet and coil technology, which allow better pictures and increased accuracy in diagnosis.
The size and design of the new MR scanner will improve patient comfort, reduce claustrophobia and accommodate a large variety of body shapes, sizes and clinical conditions, and the super-short magnet allows many studies to be completed with the patient’s head outside the bore.
Nick Sanderson, Lead Radiographer for MR Imaging at UHSM, says "MR technology has developed significantly over the last 10 years and the new scanner will deliver far superior image quality and resolution, and will support new scanning techniques such as diffusion-weighted MR imaging which is now routinely used in the imaging of stroke patients, but cannot be delivered by the current scanner.“
As well as installing the new scanner, UHSM is taking the opportunity to re-design the MR scanner waiting area to improve patient flow and patient privacy. The new MR system will allow a faster throughput of patients. It is anticipated that patient throughput will increase from two patients per hour on the current scanner to three patients per hour on the new scanner.
The new scanner will be operational from November 2010, and work to remove the old scanner will commence in August. An interim mobile scanner will be used from mid-July onwards to allow the necessary removal, installation and set-up of the new scanner to be undertaken.
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