Groundbreaking treatments at new London centre for cardiovascular MR
11 September 2007 Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, has recently
opened its new Centre for Cardiovascular MR with two Magnetom Avanto MRI
scanners and an interventional cardiac catheterisation laboratory from
Siemens Medical Solutions. The new centre, which has been developed by Dr
Andrew Taylor and Professors John Deanfield and Philipp Bonhoeffer in
conjunction with Siemens over the last four years, was partly funded by the
British Heart Foundation. The set-up of the new Centre will allow two
different examinations to be carried out (angiography & MRI) one immediately
after the other. Previously, a patient could not be safely transferred from
one imaging modality to another under the same general anaesthetic. With the
new suite, patients can be examined on one machine before being transported
on the special ‘Miyabi’ shell system for the second MRI exam. Professor
Bonhoeffer, an internationally respected specialist in interventional
catheterisation for patients with congenital and valvar heart disease will
conduct groundbreaking research and clinical application into non-invasive
heart surgery using advanced catheterisation techniques. This avoids the
complications and dangers present with open-heart surgery, like damage to
other organs, drastically reduced opportunity for infection, recovery time
of days instead of weeks and less post operation medication. Dr Andrew
Taylor, an Academic Radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, said: “This
is an entirely unique way of performing these exams. We can undock the
patient from one system and directly transport them to the other while still
under anaesthetic, which enables us to combine information from both imaging
modalities, whilst acquiring new functional data that we have has hitherto
not been able to easily acquire.” “This is the first time we have put
together a hybrid solution like this in the UK and this project has been a
strong success,” said Gary Cook, Siemens London Sales Manager. “Aside from
being able to move patients between two modalities, the Magnetom Avanto
enables the highest acquisition speed without sacrificing spatial or
temporal resolution. Combining this with the advanced Artis Biplane
Cardioangiography solution and integrating the output for both PACS and
external operation broadcast, not only allows the doctors to reduce
procedure times but also share the benefits way beyond GOSH and the UK.”
MAGNETOM Avanto, the world’s first Tim MRI system, provides unsurpassed
image quality, enhanced productivity, and greater patient comfort. The TIM
Application Suite has a complete range of clinically optimised examinations
for all regions. Excellent head-to-toe imaging can be accomplished with the
sequences and features included in this application suite.
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