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Lisa Chamoff, Contributing Reporter | October 16, 2017
From the October 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
NeoCoil
NeoCoil is in the process of submitting an application for FDA 510(k) clearance for a new 16-channel breast coil for 1.5T and 3T MR scanners.
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Aside from producing high-quality images, the new coil is lightweight and can be altered to fit different breast sizes, fitting 99 percent of the population, says Venkat Goruganti, director of RF coil development at NeoCoil.
The coil was designed to be easily adjustable for maximum patient comfort.
“Patient comfort has been critical for breast imaging,” Goruganti says.
The coil also has an open access design for diagnostic scans, as well as lateral and medial biopsies. Coils come with configurations for a 16-channel bilateral diagnostic, eight-channel bilateral biopsy, 12-channel lateral biopsy and six-channel medial biopsy.
The coil comes with a narrow width in the medial area, which helps to keep the breast anatomy closer to its natural shape.
“Other designs have a wider medial area, which keep the breasts too far apart, and you lose the natural shape, which doctors don’t prefer,” Goruganti says.
NeoCoil recently received FDA clearance for its Sentinel Wireless Audio System, which allows patients to listen to music or other audio during MR imaging while drowning out the noise of the scanner. It also integrates with the scanner so music can be interrupted by the operating technician.
Other MR headphones rely on the use of pneumatic tubes, says Brian Brown, acting president and chief innovation officer at NeoCoil.
“We feel that these wireless headphones are the new way of the future in terms of improving workflow,” Brown says.
Philips
At RSNA 2016, Philips released a new suite of software applications dedicated to neurology, for use with its Ingenia digital MR systems. These eight applications include six on the scanner itself and two on the Philips IntelliSpace Portal, an advanced visualization and analysis solution that offers a simple approach to streamline workflow.
“We talked to a lot of neuroradiologists,” says Martijn Hartjes, global product marketing manager for MR at Philips. “They are looking to answer complex questions in traumatic brain injury and more advanced disease.”
Included among the applications within the scanner is MultiBand SENSE, which allows for multiple slices of the brain to be acquired simultaneously during fMR exams, without a longer scan time.
