GE Healthcare is proud to unveil SIGNA Heroi, a new 3.0T
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system named in honor of all the
healthcare workers who continue caring for our global community
amidst today’s COVID-19 pandemic. Offering new workflows and AIR
Recon DL enhancements, SIGNA Hero is designed to help those on the
frontlines meet today’s most pressing needsii. With better image
quality, enhanced workflows, increased productivity, improved
patient comfort and greater sustainability, SIGNA Hero aims to make
challenging exams simpler, turning “difficult” to “routine.”
“True heroes are built for any challenge, and today’s healthcare
workers have proven themselves true heroes,” says Jie Xue,
president & CEO, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, GE Healthcare.
“While the world’s healthcare heroes cared for patients on the
frontlines, our GE Healthcare team kept working the background on
cutting-edge technologies to help reduce the burden on clinicians
and improve patient outcomes. The result is SIGNA Hero – a system
dedicated to all those who always care for our global
community.”
Healthcare systems – and radiology departments in particular –
face more strain than ever. In the United States alone, the
COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have led to a 35 percent drop in
MRI procedure volume in 2020 – from 42 million procedures in 2019
to an estimated 27.4 million in 2020iii. This backlog in non-urgent
patient care, combined with today’s growing disease burden and
industry-wide staff shortages demands new solutions to help
clinicians manage today’s evolving needs.
To help address these challenges, GE Healthcare designed SIGNA
Hero to help accommodate more patients of all shapes and sizes,
offering a 70 cm bore and detachable table for enhanced patient
comfort. Additionally, the system unlocks new clinical workflows
for today’s healthcare heroes, leveraging artificial intelligence
to improve the clarity of images while increasing operational
efficiency. This includes AIR Recon DL, GE Healthcare’s pioneering
deep learning image reconstruction technology that works across all
anatomies and offers clinicians a 30-50 percent reduction in exam
timesiv.
“Prior to going live, we were doing on average 10-12 patients a
day. With AIR Recon DL, we were able to add four time slots a day
on average,” explains Dr. Randall Stenoien, MD, owner and CEO of
Houston Medical Imaging. “As we come out of COVID and increase
volumes further, we’re going to have a really tremendous
opportunity to be more efficient and improve patient outcomes. It’s
been a wonderful experience.”
To date, AIR Recon DL has benefited nearly one million patients
around the world, and feedback from clinical users has been
overwhelmingly positive – including observations of sharper and
less noisy images.
Stenoien adds: “We were seeing a dramatic reduction in scan
times. One of our first patients was a pituitary scan; 30 minutes
40 seconds. In January on the same scanner, the scan was 14 minutes
and 42 seconds, a 52 percent reduction. And when I sent those
images to my neuroradiologist, I immediately got a phone call to
ask what in the world had happened. It was the prettiest pituitary
scan she’d ever seen.”
Now, at the Radiological Society of North America’s 2021 Annual
Meeting, GE Healthcare is excited to announce two new extensions of
this cutting-edge deep learning technology, including 3D sequences
and PROPELLER for motion robustnessii. Both solutions are designed
to provide sharper images with better signals in half the time for
nearly 90 percent of the daily clinical scans done, regardless of
the anatomy being imaged.
Furthermore, clinicians can scan multiple organs simultaneously
and with fewer patient adjustments using whole-body imaging.
Combined with GE Healthcare’s patented AIR Coils, clinicians have
total freedom in coil positioning and handling during an MRI scan.
Each coil is lightweight and flexible to closely wrap around
patients, like a blanket, to fit each patients’ form – helping them
achieve the best results possible.
This feature is especially useful in light of today’s disease
burden. For example, prostate imaging – a traditionally
uncomfortable experience – is now much faster, simpler and more
comfortable with wing-to-wing clinical solutions like One Stop
Prostate imaging with AIR Coils and AIR Recon DL, which can
complete the patient scan in less than 15 minutes.
Additionally, AIR Touch and AIR x leverage the power of GE
Healthcare’s Edison platform to help daily practice run smoother.
To begin, AIR Touch dramatically simplifies scan set up for
technologists, reducing set up time by up to 37 percent with
automated coil selection and landmarking that optimizes key
elements in the coil configuration automatically to get an
excellent image for every patient, while using the full power of
each coil. Then, AIR x provides automated slice prescriptions to
help reduce previously redundant, manual steps. The AI-based,
automated workflow tool for brain and knee scanning helps increase
consistency and productivity for greater operational
efficiency.
GE Healthcare also designed the system with sustainability in
mind. To help healthcare systems save on operational costs in the
long run, SIGNA Hero is an eco-friendly system designed to be
capable of lowering helium usage up to 67 percent due to GE
Healthcare’s Intelligent Magnet Technology, which is 1.4x more
efficient than previous generations. Moreover, healthcare systems
can feel good knowing that the SIGNA Hero magnet – which is already
two tons lighter than its predecessor – is designed, produced, and
shipped from a facility that is 100 percent carbon neutral. And
while they are scanning, the system is designed to easily decrease
power consumption and scan time by 30-50 percent with AIR Recon
DL.
Finally, GE Healthcare’s built-in, instantly accessible Digital
Ecosystem provides immediate expert support and coaching to
seamlessly educate staff, manage department protocols, and remotely
update scanner software at times that best suit department
schedules.
For more information on GE Healthcare’s MR portfolio and SIGNA
Hero system, see gehealthcare.com or visit the company’s #RSNA21
booth in person or virtually.
About GE Healthcare:
GE Healthcare is the $17 billion* healthcare business of GE
(NYSE: GE). As a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical
diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables
clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through
intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services,
supported by its Edison intelligence platform. With over 100 years
of healthcare industry experience and around 47,000 employees
globally, the company operates at the center of an ecosystem
working toward precision health, digitizing healthcare, helping
drive productivity and improving outcomes for patients, providers,
health systems and researchers around the world.
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*Excludes Biopharma
i SIGNA™ Hero is 510(k) pending at FDA. Not yet CE Marked. Not
available for sale in the United States or the EU. Not commercially
available in all markets.
ii AIR Recon DL 3D and PROPELLER are 510(k) pending at the FDA.
Not CE marked. Not available for sale in the United States or EU.
Not commercially available in all markets.
iii IMV Medical Information Division. 2020 MR Market Outlook
Report.
iv GE Healthcare data on file
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