GE Healthcare
The right capabilities. The right experience. The right investment.
Optima™ MR450w
The world of MR
is always changing.
Patient expectations of MR have shifted in recent years, as people have begun demanding a better, more comfortable scanning experience. Increasing the size of the bore is a good first step — but it’s only the beginning.
The right system should overcome traditional limitations of wide-bore MR, offering both excellent images and a user-friendly experience. Patients should be more comfortable during their scan, and clinicians more comfortable in making a definitive diagnosis. All the while, organizations should expect their MR system to help them deliver solid financial returns, maintain
a high standard of patient safety, and increase the quality of their care.
Today, the right way has arrived.
The Optima MR450w is wide-bore MR done right.
Thanks to cutting-edge technologies, we’ve advanced the capabilities of wide-bore MR by delivering both uncompromised image quality and high productivity — all with an expansive 50cm field of view.
But it’s about more than the bore. Built on a fully redesigned MR platform, the Optima MR450w offers a range of advanced new functionality, making it a workhorse system for practices of all sizes and specialties.
It is also extremely accessible. Its cost and capabilities make it a great choice for first-time MR customers who can make it their only scanner, as well as established MR users seeking a versatile, hard-working system. Its 1.5T field strength is the industry’s best-known and most-used. And its bore diameter and field of view make MR scans accessible to more patients who need them.
The Optima MR450w is the right MR system in so many ways.
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The right capabilities — to diagnose and grow.
The Optima MR450w delivers exquisite image quality to aid in your diagnosis. To meet your high quality expectations, the advanced capabilities of our Discovery™ MR platform have been applied in the Optima MR450w, making it both versatile and powerful.
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Redesigned magnet
A completely new 145cm long magnet is designed to ensure uniform tissue contrast in a patient-friendly space.
eXtreme gradients
Strong whole-body gradients deliver 34 mT/m amplitude and 150 T/m/s slew
rate on each axis, yielding scans that are fast, accurate, and highly reproducible.
OpTix RF digital receiver
An exclusive optical RF system increases signal clarity and maximizes signal intensity for clean, crisp images.
Anatomy-optimized RF coils
High-density coils focus elements around the anatomy of interest and provide extended coverage where needed, for optimal image quality in virtually every procedure.
Express patient table
A fully removable table minimizes time between scans to help boost productivity.
Acoustic Reduction Technology
Reduce an acquisition’s acoustic noise with virtually no compromise to image quality.
Large field of view
With a 50cm field of view, you can cover more anatomy in fewer scans.
Unmatched breast imaging
Thanks to applications like IDEAL and VIBRANT-FLEX, no comparable solution can capture so much so well.
Two-station whole-spine imaging
Acquire an entire spine in a fraction of the time — and with multiple contrasts.
Holistic Liver Assessment
An industry first, MR-Touch opens up new opportunities for care by identifying variations in liver tissue stiffness.
3-D Arterial Spin Labeling (3D ASL)
Generate a full-coverage, high-SNR 3D image of the brain, great for evaluating cerebrovascular conditions such as stroke.
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Growing your offerings — and your practice
Along with these capabilities, the system’s wider bore opens up additional pathways for diagnosis and treatment. Greater patient positioning freedom and access enables interventional procedures. Such procedures give practices new ways to care for patients, opening new opportunities for increased patient referrals.
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The right experience — for patients
The Optima MR450w comes with a 70cm bore, offering a more comfortable experience for your patients — especially larger individuals, children, and those prone to claustrophobia. And the improved patient experience goes beyond the bore — next-generation clinical applications help reduce exam time and improved patient comfort features result in
a cooler, quieter experience.
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Express Patient Table
Transfer patients once to improve throughput.
Easily docked and undocked by a single technologist, the Express detachable patient table helps improve workflow and efficiency by minimizing time between scans. It allows for faster patient positioning accuracy compared to fixed table designs, and can support up to 500 lbs.
Patients are able to prep in private, and single transfers of patients directly onto the MR table create a more comfortable patient experience. In the event of an emergency, just one technologist can typically undock the table and safely transport the patient out of the room in under 30 seconds.
Beyond productivity, the table enables new kinds of growth for your practice, including interventional radiology and advanced breast imaging.
A work of ART
Acoustic Reduction Technology delivers a quieter patient experience.
The right MR experience goes beyond bore size
and positioning — patients today are also demanding a quieter MR acquisition. New Acoustic Reduction Technology (ART) delivers just that, reducing acoustic noise.
ART is a highly useful application that’s usable in brain, spine and MSK scans. And because ART reduces noise by optimizing the gradient performance, there’s virtually no compromise to image quality.
Image B, captured at the same resolution and scan time as image A, was acquired using ART. The acquisition was 10 dBA quieter — with virtually no compromise to image quality.
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The right experience — for technologists
Staying on schedule has an added benefit — it may help increase the job satisfaction of technologists, aiding in their retention. This can help enable administrators to hold onto talent longer, saving on turnover and training costs.
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