August 5, 2008 – Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. (HMSA) said the first OASIS High-Field Open MRI has been installed and is available for clinical use at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, PA.
“As technology has continued to progress, the differences in image quality and patient comfort have been minimized,” said Daniel Cohen, M.D., St. Mary Medical Director of MRI. “We now can offer patients the security of a spacious design for added comfort during scans while simultaneously providing the most accurate scan results to aid physicians in their diagnoses.”
OASIS is a High-Field Open MRI system, which delivers high speed gradients, multichannel RF technology and Zenith RF coils.
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