Vendors polish advanced apps with 3T platforms

November 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Vol. 30 No. 11 Vendors polish advanced apps with 3T platforms Breast imaging exemplifies clinical value of new developments, as modality bounces back By Greg Freiherr Mr. Freiherr is business editor of Diagnostic Imaging. MR vendors have been chipping away at new clinical applications for years. They have pointed to 3T as the means to expand routine practice in ways that are not routine, adding computing engines to handle the massive volumes of data that would gush forth, expanding data pipelines, building out coils with extended channels—in short, creating the infrastructure to support a new diagnostic order. This year, they mean business. Breast imaging, oncology applications, and even, possibly, cardiac studies will be marquee applications next month on the RSNA exhibit floor. Siemens Medical Solutions began laying the groundwork for what it will show this year at the RSNA meeting with its introduction in 2003 of Tim, its Total imaging matrix. Tim CT is so named because the table moves as it does in CT for continuous scanning down the body to allow peripheral runoff MR angiography. A derivative to be showcased at this year's meeting will allow whole-body scanning to visualize primary tumors and aid staging of metastases.

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