AIRIS Elite is a break-through in price performance whole-body MRI. It is the most advanced mid-field MRI, with all of the high-end features of Hitachi’s well-proven AIRIS series. The award-winning open magnet maximises patient friendliness and comfort. AIRIS Elite’s outstanding performance underlines Hitachi’s commitment to leading open MRI technology.
With powerful gradients, the AIRIS Elite performs a virtually unlimited variety of advanced imaging techniques, including those previously associated exclusively with high-field MRI (e.g. fat-saturation/CHESS). The user-friendly system enables smooth and efficient patient examinations.
Even with high patient throughput, the AIRIS Elite’s image quality is uncompromised.
IAC
3D Heavy T2-weighted FSE (Fast Spin Echo) scan with 37 echoes (TR=2000, effective TE=308) long IET (Inter Echo Time) to provide good signal/noise ratio and slice thickness of 1.8mm, reconstructed every 0.9mm, high resolution reconstruction matrix allow sub-millimetre resolution and visualisation of acoustic nerves with neurinoma in right one.
Knee
PD-weighted FSE (Fast Spin Echo) coronal scan with TR=2800ms and effective TE=23ms with spectral fat saturation (CHESS) option. Homogenous fat components saturation, good contrast between bone, cartilage and fluid, high resolution acquisition and reconstruction matrix allow clear visualisation of pathological fluid collection in right meniscus.
MRCP
MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) of 3D Heavy
T2-weighted FSE (Fast Spin Echo) scan with 136 echoes and special ADA k-space filling, slice thickness of 3 mm, reconstructed every 1.5 mm, respiratory gating and high resolution acquisition and reconstruction matrix allow detailed visualisation of bile duct.
Wrist
3D GE (Gradient Echo) coronal image of the wrist joint scanned with dedicated QD Wrist coil and spectral fat saturation (CHESS) option. Acquisition matrix 260x260, FOV (Field of View) of 14.5 cm, slice thickness of 3mm, reconstructed every 1.5mm allow sub-millimetre resolution needed for depiction of bone, cartilage and ligaments.
C-spine
3D BASG (Balanced Steady State Acquisition with Rewound Gradient Echo) transversal image of cervical spine. In-plane resolution of 0.51mm, FA (Flip Angle)=70 to provide good T2 contrast of fluid, slice thickness of 3mm together with pulse gating give clear image of centrally bulging disc pushing the spinal canal.
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