The UNIVERSITY medical center Utrecht, Utrecht, has developed a new technique for the duration of the scan to significantly reduce, without this leading to less quality pictures, makes it to the hospital on Thursday to be known.
The new technique, called MR-STATISTICS, it is possible to acquire reduce from 25 to 5 minutes. This is going to be beneficial for people who are afraid of opening up to an MRI scanner is to be located. The scanner is a tube of not more than 70 cm wide, and 1.5 m in height, which also makes a lot of noise.
as An interventional radiologist at the UNIVERSITY medical centre, explains that for the MR STAT is a completely new technique that is being used. "MRI scans have been in the seventies, in the same way it was built. For the MR STAT, we went back to the drawing board."
The new method of diagnosis, which ensures that there are fewer scans have to be. With the old technology, and there were five scans in a row, each with a bit of extra information, a high level of activity. Using this method, it is possible to scan the entire process to be captured. There is no need for patients have a lot less time to complete the scan is to be located.
The new technology could also be applied to existing MRI scanners. The researchers will receive a grant of 1 million euros from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the technology to optimize it, so that in the future, it can also be used in other hospitals in the Netherlands.
Date Of Update: 27 February 2020, 15:00
