FDA Clears MAGNETOM Vida 3T MRI System From Siemens Healthineers
- Scanner’s BioMatrix technology automatically adapts to anatomical and physiological
characteristics to provide consistent, high-quality imaging for all patient types
- Scanner architecture and innovative applications simplify and accelerate workflows while
increasing exam precision and patient comfort
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the MAGNETOM Vida 3 Tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner from
Siemens Healthineers, which features new BioMatrix technology that addresses inherent anatomical and physiological differences
among patients, as well as user variability. By reducing this variability among patients and users, the scanner’s BioMatrix
technology can lower the number of rescans and increase productivity to improve MRI’s cost efficiency. With systems such as the
MAGNETOM Vida, as well as a new name that underlines its pioneering spirit and engineering expertise, Siemens Healthineers – the
separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG – helps healthcare providers worldwide meet current challenges and excel in
their respective environments.
Reliable, reproducible data for all patients in less time
The MAGNETOM Vida with BioMatrix technology helps healthcare providers perform a full range of routine and complex examinations
while delivering robust results for each patient. BioMatrix Sensors built into the scanner’s new patient table automatically track
respiratory patterns as soon as the patient lies on the table, providing information that can help formulate the optimal exam
strategy. In addition to helping users avoid costly rescans, BioMatrix Tuners improve the quality and reproducibility of
whole-spine diffusion imaging via individual slice adjustments that mitigate distortion that otherwise may occur, especially at 3T.
Biomatrix Interfaces help ensure consistently high exam quality, accelerating scanning by up to 30 percent and improving patient
care. The scanner’s intuitive user interface permits correct one-touch positioning of the patient table based on intelligent body
models. The patient table provides motorized assistance, enabling users to move patients who can be difficult to move (i.e.
immobile, trauma, and extremely heavy patients) to and from the scanner.
Faster scans with high patient comfort
The new system architecture of the MAGNETOM Vida offers extremely high performance and long-term stability without the need for
additional space. The scanner’s 60/200 XT gradient system offers the most powerful commercially available gradients in a 70-cm bore
scanner. The 55x55x50 cm field of view enables coverage of larger body regions in one step.
The GO technologies of the MAGNETOM Vida automate and simplify workflows from the start of the scan through quality control of
the image data. The result is increased productivity for routine examinations of the brain, spine, and joints – from
touch-of-a-button patient positioning to the transfer of clinical images to the picture archiving and communication system (PACS).
The system’s new user interface not only enables automated image acquisition and processing, but also allows advanced
post-processing applications to run at the scanner.
The MAGNETOM Vida also includes the company’s Compressed Sensing Cardiac Cine clinical application, which can accelerate MRI
scans by a factor of 10 to allow free-breathing cardiac MRI examinations.
“With the MAGNETOM Vida, Siemens Healthineers proudly offers customers a 3T MRI system that provides unprecedented levels of
personalization throughout the patient examination, to effectively address the unique challenges of each patient group and provide
high-quality imaging to previously underserved segments of the population,” said Murat Gungor, Vice President of Magnetic
Resonance, Siemens Healthineers North America.
The MAGNETOM Vida offers a new generation of ultra-high-density Biomatrix coils with a patient adaptive design that enables
increased accuracy, flexibility, and speed. The BioMatrix Spine coils acquire and display patient respiratory data without
requiring user interaction. The Biomatrix Head and Neck coils possess CoilShim technology to ensure reproducible image quality in
every patient. For orthopedic applications, the new Shoulder Shape and Tx/Rx Knee coils possess an anthropomorphic design that
permits greater flexibility to accommodate large patients. And for multipurpose imaging, the UltraFlex Large and Small coils
combine ultra-high coil element density and high flexibility.
In addition to its many clinical innovations, the MAGNETOM Vida consumes energy efficiently, potentially lowering the total cost
of ownership over its lifetime. The scanner’s Eco-Power technology provides intelligent control of power-hungry components by
deactivating them when they are inactive for long periods.
Siemens Healthineers is the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG enabling healthcare providers worldwide
to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments. A leader in medical technology, Siemens
Healthineers is constantly innovating its portfolio of products and services in its core areas of diagnostic and therapeutic
imaging and in laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine. Siemens Healthineers is also actively developing its digital health
services and enterprise services. To help customers succeed in today’s dynamic healthcare marketplace, Siemens Healthineers is
championing new business models that maximize opportunity and minimize risk for healthcare providers. In fiscal 2016, which ended
on September 30, 2016, Siemens Healthineers generated revenue of €13.5 billion and profit of over €2.3 billion and has about 46,000
employees worldwide. Further information is available at www.siemens.com/healthineers.
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