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Hitachi Medical Systems Singapore

Hitachi

MRI : Echelon

After being a leader in the OPEN MRI market, Hitachi has powered its way into developing the high Tesla MRI system. The Echolon, a premium 1.5T MRI system with cutting edge technology is the latest in its class. The introduction of the 1.5T provides a complete range of MRI systems to choose from while Hitachi continues its leadership in OPEN MRI systems.

Features

Echelon Image

  • Scalable to 16 channels
  • RADAR (Radial Acquisition Regime)
  • RAPID (Rapid Acquisition through Parallel
    Imaging Design)
  • Variety of scanning options
  • Multiple coil connectors
  • Sentinel remote monitoring system
  • Compact siting

Software Packages

Echelon Image

  • Neuro imaging package
  • Cardiac imaging package
  • Cardiac analysis system
  • Contrast enhanced MR angiography
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
  • Single/multi voxel MR spectroscopy
  • Peripheral vascular CE MRA

Variety of Coils

Echelon Image

  • RAPID head coil
  • RAPID C-spine coil
  • RAPID knee coil
  • RAPID NV coil
  • RAPID breast coil
  • RAPID wrist coil
  • RAPID body coil
  • RAPID CTL coil
  • RAPID shoulder coil
  • RAPID cardiac coil
  • T/R coil

Specifications

  • 1.5T high field MRI
  • Short bore magnet with zero boil off
  • High gradients 33mT/m and slew rate of 150
  • HOSS shim technology
  • Long table stroke
  • Wide range of applications

Clinical Images

Echelon Clinical Image

High resolution non-contrast Angiography image of abdominal vessels. MIP reconstruction of BASG sequence - Hitachi HOSS allows large 50cm FOV imaging with excellent homogenous fat saturation. RAPID factor 2.

Echelon Clinical Image

Volume Rendering reconstruction of 3D TOF brain angiography. RAPID factor 1.5 allows acquisition of 200 slices in 1:33 minute to visualise brain arterio-vascular malformation.

Echelon Clinical Image

High resolution FLAIR image of the brain - cerebral infarction hyper-intensive foci in both hemispheres of brain (predominantly in left one) visible with short IET of 10 ms and scan time of 3 minutes.

Echelon Clinical Image

This high resolution (reconstruction matrix 1024x1024) T1 FSE transversal scan acquired in only 2:23 minutes with slice thickness 2mm and FOV of 9cm allows sub-millimetre in-plane resolution for detailed anatomy visualisation.

Echelon Clinical Image

PD-weighted FSE transversal image of the knee with recurrent dislocation of the patella - excellent fat saturation due to HOSS technique, sub-millimetre in-plane resolution.

Echelon Clinical Image

MIP reconstruction of 3D thick slab high resolution FSE MRCP sequence with Driven Equilibrium and Respiratory Gating software shows serious cystoma/adenoma of bile duct.