Milan, 25 Jan. (Adnkronos Salute) — An MRI unique in Italy and a CT scan capable of capturing images of the heart in the time of a beat. They are the new hi-tech entries in the fleet of the IRCCS San Raffaele in Rome, which announces a diagnostic revolution driven by the belief that «technology applied to prevention, treatment, therapies and research is able to improve people’s quality of life, when it does not even save it — underline the hospital — For this reason the Irccs San Raffaele and the Mebic Consortium (Medical and Experimental BioImaging Center) continue to invest in innovation aiming at increasing prevention and screening paths based on the important support of the most modern diagnostic imaging technologies».
The new «spearhead» of the diagnostic section of the institute — explains a note — is the 3 tesla Signa Hero magnetic resonance of GE HealthCare, «the first to be installed in Italy and the second throughout Europe».It is «a state-of-the-art equipment developed to help improve patient comfort, ensuring silent and fast examinations, and to optimize workflows by improving diagnostic efficiency thanks to high image resolution and reduced scanning times per individual examination». A green system, «innovative also from an environmental point of view». The new RM is in fact a «low-consumption machine, which allows a 34% reduction in energy compared to previous generation systems and which, thanks to the use of intelligent technology, uses up to 67% less helium».
«From a practical point of view — says Alberto Pierallini, head of Diagnostic Imaging IRCCS San Raffaele — this equipment allows quick and easy access to the use of so-called advanced magnetic resonance techniques, such as spectroscopy and perfusion that are very useful in differential diagnoses between tumors and other forms of diseases, and tractography that allows the ‘virtual’ visualization of the cerebral white matter bundles and their involvement in various brain pathologies.In other applications, such as the RM study of the joints, it allows to obtain high diagnostic quality images using acquisition matrices up to 1,024, with much faster times than traditional magnets».
The second machine installed at the San Raffaele in Rome — continues the note — is the Revolution Ct, also made by GE HealthCare, «a latest generation equipment equipped with a 160 mm detector, the largest existing in the world, which allows to carry out examinations 4-5 times faster than traditional tomograph systems (with 40 mm detector) and with consequent radiation dose delivered 4-5 times lower. It allows you to capture full, ultra-high-definition images of organs such as the brain, heart, liver or pancreas in the time of a single 0.28-second rotation, with high-quality clinical results. Moreover, thanks to the very high scanning speed, the machine is perfect for performing examinations even on pediatric patients and uncooperative patients without having to resort to sedation».
«We are talking about acquisitions for example whole body in a few seconds, or a CT heart in the time of a beat — specifies Marcello De Santis, radiologist of the IRCCS — The heart is generally the most complex organ to study with computed tomography, given the need to acquire images in cardiosynchronized mode. Knowing that the equipment is able not only to acquire the volume of the heart below the second, but also to recognize and avoid any arrhythmias (for example extrasystoles) that could affect the success of the examination, allows to obtain diagnostic results in each patient «.
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