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GE Healthcare GE Healthcare Reaches Milestone - 500th Signa HDe 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner Sold
GE Healthcare GE Healthcare Reaches Milestone - 500th Signa HDe 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner Sold
GE Healthcare Reaches Milestone - 500th Signa HDe 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner Sold
Monday, 16 March 2009 04:51 | 
| Company News - GE Healthcare |
GE Healthcare announced the 500th order of its Signa HDe 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging scanner (MRI) at the Summit Orthopedic Associates in St. Paul, MN.
The Signa HDe 1.5T system is built on GE’s exclusive high-definition (HD) MR platform with a 20 percent smaller footprint than a typical 1.5T system, allowing it to be installed in the same physical location as low field (0.5T and 0.2T) MR systems with low operating and siting costs.
By employing efficient gradients and an innovative water-cooling technology, the GE Signa HDe 1.5T uses approximately 41% less energy than GE’s previous generation MRI systems while still allowing the MRI system to achieve outstanding image quality.
“We chose the Signa HDe because we believe it to be a great fit for our needs,” Lisa Lavin, Chief Operating Officer at Summit Orthopedics. “The orthopedic 8-channel imaging capability is impressive and it’s low cost of ownership and energy savings is also appealing. We look forward to the unit's installation later this year.”
In 2008, GE announced its Signa HDe system as the first medical imaging product from GE Healthcare to be recognized as an ecomagination offering after completing the company's rigorous internal environmental and operational evaluation, recognizing it as one of the most energy efficient 1.5T MRI systems commercially available.
Ecomagination is GE’s commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that help customers address their environmental and financial needs, such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. The Signa HDe 1.5T was recognized as an ecomagination product on the basis of energy savings, as well as operating benefits. Compared to the average 1.5T MRI system, the GE Signa HDe 1.5T is designed to use over 20 percent less space, increasing sitting flexibility.
In addition, it was the official MRI scanner at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bejing, scanning nearly 700 athletes.
“GE’s focus is to provide the highest quality products to patients and our customers worldwide and the Signa HDe is a reflection of our commitment to producing quality, energy-efficient technologies,” said Jim Davis, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare’s global MRI business.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit website at www.gehealthcare.com.
Source: GE Healthcare
By employing efficient gradients and an innovative water-cooling technology, the GE Signa HDe 1.5T uses approximately 41% less energy than GE’s previous generation MRI systems while still allowing the MRI system to achieve outstanding image quality.
“We chose the Signa HDe because we believe it to be a great fit for our needs,” Lisa Lavin, Chief Operating Officer at Summit Orthopedics. “The orthopedic 8-channel imaging capability is impressive and it’s low cost of ownership and energy savings is also appealing. We look forward to the unit's installation later this year.”
In 2008, GE announced its Signa HDe system as the first medical imaging product from GE Healthcare to be recognized as an ecomagination offering after completing the company's rigorous internal environmental and operational evaluation, recognizing it as one of the most energy efficient 1.5T MRI systems commercially available.
Ecomagination is GE’s commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that help customers address their environmental and financial needs, such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy. The Signa HDe 1.5T was recognized as an ecomagination product on the basis of energy savings, as well as operating benefits. Compared to the average 1.5T MRI system, the GE Signa HDe 1.5T is designed to use over 20 percent less space, increasing sitting flexibility.
In addition, it was the official MRI scanner at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bejing, scanning nearly 700 athletes.
“GE’s focus is to provide the highest quality products to patients and our customers worldwide and the Signa HDe is a reflection of our commitment to producing quality, energy-efficient technologies,” said Jim Davis, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare’s global MRI business.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit website at www.gehealthcare.com.
Source: GE Healthcare
