OVATION OPEN MRI SCANNER

The Signa Ovation™ is a patient-friendly open MRI scanner designed not only to handle a typical patient mix, but to accommodate larger patients, patients who are claustrophobic, and others who have difficulty tolerating the close quarters of conventional MR machines.

The GE Signa Ovation 0.35T MRI system is a state of the art, open MR imaging system designed to provide maximum patient comfort. Its open, patient-friendly design measures 142 cm (41.5 feet) pole to pole with 16 inches of vertical clearance, to accommodate even larger patients without the trauma of closed quarters. Each GE Signa Ovation 0.35T MRI is equipped with a patient table rated to 225 kg (500 lbs) that can swing 25 degrees to either side and laterally an additional 12 cm (5 inches), an integrated transmit/receive body coil and an optional XL body surface coil.

GE SIGNA .35T Ovation Open gives you the following benefits:

• Real-time interactive imaging at 3.5 frames per sec
• Robust gradient system (19mT/m, maximum SR46T/m/sec)
• Open, patient-friendly design
• Maximum patient weight of 225 kg (500 lbs)
• 4 (8 quad channels) independent high bandwidth receivers
• Fastest pulse sequences in Open MRI
• Fastest reconstruction, up to 850 images/sec at 2562-FFTs
• 65% faster post-processing powered by Linux OS

The GE SIGNA .35T Ovation Open provides you with with the following Specification:

CLINICAL APPLICATION Whole body
CONFIGURATION Open MRI
SURFACE COILS Integrated transmit and receive body coil;; head coil, 4 channel neurovascular array, 8 channel CTL array, 2 channel shoulder array, 3 channel large extremity array, 3 channel small extremity array, 4 channel foot array, 3 channel wrist array
SPECTROSCOPY No
SYNCHRONIZATION Standard cardiac gating, ECG/peripheral, respiratory gating
PULSE SEQUENCES Standard: SE, IR, 2D/3D GRE and SPGR, 2D/3D TOF, 2D/3D FSE, 2D/3D FGRE and FSPGR, SSFP, FLAIR, EPI, optional: 2D/3D Fiesta, true chem sat, fat/water separation, single shot diffusion EPI, line scan diffusion
IMAGING MODES Localizer, single slice, multislice, volume, fast, POMP, multi slab, cine, slice and frequency zip, extended dynamic range, tailored RF
TR 1.3 to 12000 msec in increments of 1 msec
TE 0.4 to 2000 msec in increments of 1 msec
SINGLE/MULTI SLICE Simultaneous scan and reconstruction;; 80 images/second reconstruction
FOV 3cm to 40 cm continuous
SLICE THICKNESS 2D: 1.4mm – 20mm 3D: 0.2mm – 20mm