MRI for the Capital
MedImport installs new MRI equipment at the S. P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital
Text: Artur
Toporkov
Photo: Philips, MedImport
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It is often impossible to be sure of the diagnosis without MRI |
Although today magnetic resonance imaging is one of the most accurate and widely used diagnostic methods, currently not all medical facilities in Russia provide this type of scan, and the patients who seek free medical care sometimes have to wait months for the appointment. This is why every new MRI system up and running is a significant event not only for a particular hospital but for the whole city as well.
Founded in 1910, the S. P. Botkin City Clinical Hospital now occupies the entire block. The number of its employees is 4,000, and the buildings can accommodate 1,700 inpatients.
The hospital is distinguished by the fact that almost all its departments serve as the clinical bases of the leading Russian educational and research institutions. In view of the heavy workload and intensive flow of patients, the hospital constantly needs to expand and update its technical fund. MedImport helped it by installing a new MRT apparatus within the framework of the modernization program.
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At a Philips plant |
The hospital received the Philips Ingenia 1.5 T tomographic scanner and relevant software which makes it possible to conduct the widest range of studies. Experts of MedImport implemented this project on a turnkey basis, starting with consultations on the selection of the tomograph model and ending with the organization of construction works.
German experts have assembled the Faraday cages and climate
system necessary for the functioning of the magnetic resonance tomograph.
The task of installing Ingenia 1.5 T was not easy for many reasons. For
example, it was necessary to partially dismantle the external wall
of the building. It was the only way to place the undismountable apparatus
weighing 4.5 tons in the laboratory. The total weight
of the whole installation is almost 22 tons, including
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Heavy equipment transported to the clinic |
The capacity is one of the essential
parameters of a tomograph with the use of which surveys are conducted. It is
measured in Tesla (T). The quality of the images produced by the device depends
on this parameter. Devices with a capacity of 1.5T are most often used for
clinical studies; 3T tomographs can be applied on infrequent occasions.
Tomographs that boast of the capacity of more than 3T are also manufactured,
but they are used for research purposes only. If the committed capacity power
is less than 1.5T, it implies less resolution of the pictures and worse
accuracy of the diagnosis.
The Ingenia model, installed at the Botkin
Hospital by MedImport boasts of several important features:
an optimal capacity of 1.5T, dStream technology
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Philips Ingenia 1.5T MRI system |
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