Search Tag: whole body MRI
2021 18 Nov
At its Shape 22 press conference, Siemens Healthineers (Erlangen, Germany) presented its digital whole-body MRI scanner, Magnetom Free.Star. Like the preceding Magnetom Free.Max, the Magnetom Free.Star achieves its image quality, digitally. The two scanners are based on Siemens’s ‘High-V MRI’ platform, which combines advances in digitisation and artificial...Read more
2021 30 Oct
Obesity is associated with diabetes, but there are metabolically healthy individuals with excess body fat and others with normal body weight who develop insulin resistance. The key risk factor is fat distribution. Individuals who accumulate deep abdominal and visceral fat are more likely to develop insulin resistance than individuals with subcutaneous...Read more
2019 20 Feb
Executive Summary Radiology plays an important role in patient screening, diagnosis, treatment guidance, monitoring and follow-up. The sad thing is that two-thirds of the world's population has no access to basic radiologic services. In the case of computer tomography (CT) for example, 14% of low-income countries have at least one CT equipment...Read more
2018 26 Sep
Whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) enables early cancer detection, without exposing the patient to ionising radiation. New research assessing patients' acceptance of WB-MRI as a procedure for cancer staging and follow up finds higher satisfaction with WB-MRI in patients who are more informed before the exam. "WB-MRI appears to be...Read more