GE Healthcare SILENT SCAN Brochure

GE Healthcare

Humanizing the MR experience.

SILENT SCAN

AMIDST THE SILENCE,
WE HEARD THE PATIENT.

Humanizing MR isn’t just our philosophy. It’s our promise. Our promise
to change how patients feel, see, hear and experience MR for the better.
We’ve already changed the way patients feel during an MR scan by
introducing our Discovery* MR750w and Optima* MR450w wide bore
systems with the GEM Suite of lightweight, flexible coils. And we’ve also
changed the way patients see MR through the system’s award-winning
design and the Caring MR Suite sold by PDC Facilities. However, addressing
sound has quickly become a top priority for improved patient comfort
especially since 30 percent of all MR exams are neurological scans where
the patient’s head is positioned inside the bore. Now is the time to break
that silent barrier and change the way patients hear MR forever.

Introducing Silent Scan. Using a unique combination of innovative
technologies, we’ve made MR as silent as a whisper. The day when your
patients can undergo a neuro scan without feeling anxiety brought on
by the acoustic noise of a typical exam is here. And we’ve accomplished
this while still providing the excellent image quality you need to make a
confident diagnosis.

It’s time to hear the difference.

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HEAR THE NEW SOUND
OF PATIENT COMFORT.

While there’s no questioning its clinical utility, MR still faces the same
challenge it did at its inception. MR is loud. Just how loud though? Patients
have compared a typical MR scan to a jackhammer, a speeding freight
train or sitting in the front row of a rock concert. That means patients who
undergo MR scans endure noise levels above 100 decibels.

And it’s not just the noise itself, but the emotional impact it has on patients
that can have a detrimental effect on clinical outcomes. For those unfamiliar
with MR, this noise can be a surprise. Patients can sometimes think
something is wrong with the system or worry they won’t be able to hear
the technologist’s instructions. This unwelcome anxiety can disrupt scan
preparation, lead to extended scan times and ultimately result in a difficult
experience for the patient.

This challenge led us to completely change the way patients hear MR.
It led us to Silent Scan.

So just how quiet is Silent Scan? Remarkably, it’s similar to what you hear sitting
in a quiet room in your own home or on a peaceful walk through a nature trail.
In fact, that’s how we engineered it. We wanted Silent Scan to be as quiet as
the ambient sound of the scan room. And we succeeded. The sound patients
hear when they first walk in is so close to what they’ll hear when the Silent Scan
acquisition begins, there’s no more than a three-decibel difference. That level of
quiet has been unheard of in MR, until now. Peace of mind takes on a whole new
meaning when your patients are finally able to relax and hear themselves think.

But to truly appreciate the difference, you’ll need to hear it for yourself.

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ROCK CONCERT STANDARD MR JACKHAMMER SILENT SCAN AMBIENT