Desk-sized MR scanner shows potential for rheumatoid arthritis patients

May 7, 2008 Desk-sized MR scanner shows potential for rheumatoid arthritis patients Greg Freiherr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assessment with MR is essential for the early detection of rheumatoid arthritis in the hands and the monitoring of drug therapy, but hand studies are not cost effective. That's where the Japanese firm MR Technology of Tsukuba, in the prefecture of Ibaraki, comes in. The company, working with the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Tsukuba, has developed a compact whole-hand MRI system using a 0.3 T permanent magnet with a 16-cm gap. The scanner, with a 1.5 x 2-m footprint, produces an ellipsoidal imaging space covering 22 x 22 x 8 cm.

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