Magnetom Free.Max (MRT-scanner)

2020: Announcement of the Magnetom Free.Max MRT-scanner

At the beginning of December, 2020 the Siemens Healthineers company provided the smallest and easy MRT-scanner in the assortment. The model under the name Magnetom Free.Max provides field power 0.55 tesla and can be used for the solution of a number of clinical tasks, including visualization of lungs. According to Siemens, the scanner was already used for inspection of more than 70 patients with diseases of lungs, and during the research promising results were received.

This MRT-scanner does not need a pipe for helium clearing, onboard there are only 0.7 liters of helium. So requirements to installation sharply become simpler, - the head of department of diagnostic imaging of Siemens explained to Andra Hartung (André Hartung).

Magnetom Free.Max

A system weighs three metric tons, and its height is slightly less than two meters that allows to install this MRT-scanner in premises of the average size. At the same time diameter of an opening is 80 cm, i.e. the scanner allows to carry out by MRT of all body.

Now the MRT-scanner it is possible to locate directly in intensive care unit that will bring huge benefit to patients in critical condition whose transportation in the central radiological department is risky and burdensome, - professor Elmar Merkle from university hospital of Basel where there is one of the first research Magnetom Free.Max scanners considers. - Besides, in my opinion, MRT can improve considerably care of patients in the out-patient centers or even in department of emergency aid where doctors should make the diagnosis with the minimum data of inspection.

The scanner is also equipped with a management system on the basis of AI which can automate routine inspections and will help the beginning specialists. Experienced users will be able independently to configure the scanner for more difficult inspections. The scanner is in a stage of development so far and is not available to sale.^[1]

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