Technical Improvements of the Hitachi AIRIS Elite MRI Scanner


   

Hardware

  • New magnet with advanced shimming (+/- .4ppm over 20 cm fov)
  • Advanced gradient amplifiers (faster, 21mt/m amplitde 55tm/s slew rate)
  • Four channel dual quad receivers (multiple array)

Coils

  • Shoulder coil ( multiple array, anatomy fitted)
  • Wrist coil (multiple array)
  • Rapid head coil
  • Rapid lower extremity coil

Software


Fast spin echo improvements

  • FSE Flair sequence
  • Choice of echo train factors from 2 to 256
  • Choice of inter-echo spacing
  • Driven Equilibrium
New pulse sequences
  • Single Shot Fast Spin Echo (SSFSE)
  • Echo Planer Imaging (EPI)
  • Diffusion Imaging (DWI)
Tissue suppression sequences
  • FATSEP
  • FATSAT
  • Mag Transfer Imaging (MTC)
Imaging resolution
  • Imaging matrix size from 128 pixels to 1024 pixels

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