GE Healthcare GEM Suite Brochure

GE Healthcare

GEM Suite

EMBRACING COILS.
CRAFTED WITH CARE.

IT STARTS
WITH EMPATHY.

There’s no questioning the clinical value coils bring to MR imaging. But what if they
could do more than that? For example, how do your patients and technologists
see them? To understand their needs better, we changed our perspective. What
we discovered is traditional coil design cannot be tailored to the needs of each
individual patient and sometimes emphasizes function over comfort. And an
uncomfortable patient may lead lead to poor image quality and time-consuming
re-scans for you and your technologists.

Not any more. The Geometry Embracing Method (GEM) Suite is designed with
a renewed sense of empathy to bring an enhanced level of comfort to patients,
minimizing anxiety and motion during the exam. Crafted to embrace the unique
geometry of each patient by adapting its size and shape for a closer fit to the
desired anatomy, this suite of coils makes for a relaxed scan experience and
superior image quality. We’ve also reduced the overall number of coils and
made them more lightweight to make it easier for technologists to position
their patients without strain or difficulty.

With the GEM Suite, it’s simple. Comfortable patients, plus satisfied technologists,
equals better results you can see.

GEM express patient table and posterior array

The GEM express patient table is a mobile patient
transport with an embedded high-density, posterior RF
coil array. The integrated posterior array, with uniquely
sized elements, helps optimize spine image quality
without compromise. It also supports both head-first
and feet-first imaging for all anatomies and can help
eliminate the need to reposition patients within an
exam, as well as the need for coil exchanges.

EMBRACE
THE PATIENT.

What happens when you make your patients more comfortable during
their scan? They’re less likely to move, allowing you to get the images you
need without time-consuming rescans. That’s exactly what the GEM Suite
was designed to do. We started by making the coils flexible to embrace
any patient size or shape including a child’s wrist or an athlete’s shoulder.
We then added variable density foam padding on the table to minimize
pressure points, helping to reduce a patient’s tendency to shift their weight.

We also enabled feet-first scanning for all anatomies so patients can
see comfortably outside the scanner and maintain eye contact with the
technologist. Just imagine what your patients will say when you can now
offer all of these features to help make their MR scan more enjoyable.
They’ll probably thank you.

GEM anterior array and small anterior array

The GEM anterior array and small anterior array
facilitate extended coverage of chest, abdomen,
pelvis and cardiac imaging. They are lightweight,
flexible, thin and pre-formed to conform to the
patient’s size and shape. The elements in each
array are optimized to match the geometry of
the patient, maximizing both clinical performance
and comfort.

FLEXIBLE COILS

VARIABLE DENSITY FOAM PADDING

FEET-FIRST IMAGING