GE brings imaging system

GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Company, announced here on Wednesday the launch of the world's only High Definition Magnetic Resonance (HDMR) system.

According to GE, the HDMR system provides unprecedented image clarity even in cases where patients are difficult to image due to movement.

This is made possible by five critical MR applications that have been developed or co-developed by GE's engineering and scientific teams located in Bangalore.

In a statement issued here, the company said that according to recent studies, 25-30 per cent of all head MR studies are compromised by some amount of patient movement, which can impact patient diagnosis.

Global studies have also shown that 1 in 3 cardiac in-patients cannot hold his or her breath long enough to make a regular MR image and 1 in 10 abdominal MR exams are rendered inconclusive from motion artifacts or inadequate resolution. According to GE, with the new HDMR, these will become problems of the past.

"GE Healthcare is committed to bringing the latest healthcare technologies to India. The launch of HDMR Technology is yet another step towards achieving GE's vision of "Personalised Healthcare," in India.

By introducing this new technology in the Indian market, we are responding to a critical need for both clinicians and patients to provide better health care.

As with India's first GE PET/CT installed at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai in December 2004, we expect HDMR to become a gold standard in MR examinations in our country, said V Raja, president & CEO, GE Healthcare Technologies, South Asia.