Fujifilm Launches 0.4T Open MRI System

The wide, laterally moving table complements the system’s open architecture to offer a more comfortable patient experience.

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FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation, a provider of diagnostic and enterprise imaging solutions, announced the U.S. launch of APERTO Lucent, an open 0.4T MRI system. Relying on Fujifilm permanent magnet technology, the new MRI system features a single-pillar design. The wide, laterally moving table complements the system’s open architecture to offer a more comfortable patient experience.

RADAR motion compensating pulse sequence technology enables reduced need for rescans and minimizing artifact impact on workflow. RADAR sequences can be applied, from head to extremities, including shoulder and cervical spine, where patient motion can particularly challenge the MRI exam.

CHESS type RF Fat saturation complements STIR and Dixon type FatSep sequences, offering a comprehensive fat suppression capability. APERTO Lucent features eight channels of active patient shimming, designed to provide highest possible field uniformity in support of fat suppression and enhanced image quality.

Spatial resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are promoted by sensitive solenoid technology RF receiver coils and IP-Recon, Fujifilm’s iterative reconstruction algorithm. IPRecon mitigates image noise using a wavelet transform approach, which helps to provide high quality images under demanding resolution requirements.

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