Closing The Gap Between Clinical, Financial and Patient Needs

After surveying the landscape of MRI options, we found the Pica to be one of the most advanced systems solution to many of the challenges facing today’s healthcare world.

For the physician, hospital, imaging center or facility:

• Performs 95% of clinical needs
• Applications including head, neck, brain, spine, MSK, whole body, Abdomen and pelvis, MRA)
• Improved patient experience: open, comfortable, relaxing, can have friend or family in the room, less anxiety, less medication.
• Optimized workflow and efficiencies due to significantly reduced preparation time, automated positioning, auto-parameter software.
• Lower cost to build-out, acquire and operate, fast ROI.
• No cryogens, quenching and danger, minimized electricity
• Nearly 100% uptime across all installations.
• Affordable as a patient option in larger facilities, as a primary for those with financial limitations,satellites, telemedicine.

Overall, best performance in its class, high image quality, technology far beyond its magnet size, with imaging quality approved by ACR, designed to fulfill a wide range of clinical needs.

Enables your facility to market an open option, attracting more patients for both imaging and other services, increase your billings and revenue, lower your costs to acquire, operate and maintain, no cryogens to deal with, minimizes your electrical bills, performs 95% of the exam types needed, and technologies that provide performance far above other low field or open systems in its class.  Higher gradient amplitude and slew rate, greater homogeneity and FOV, thinner slice size, and other improvements including the coils, the advanced image reconstruction and software built for workflow, flexibility and ease-of-use.

Performance, specifications and features:

• Patented technology performance above magnet size.
• Permanent 0.35T Magnet
• Slew Rate 90 Tm/s
• Amplitude: 33 mT/m
• Rise Time: 037 ms
• Reduced Signal Loss and Increased Signal-To-Noise Ratio (SNR)
• Multithreaded Image reconstruction
• Latest generation hardware – SHARC floating point DSPs and FPGA’s: A single frequency reference source is used for both Transmit and Receive.
• Wide range of basic and advanced pulse sequences (such as ce-MRA, DIXON Fat & Water Separation, DWI & ADC map).
• Fast acquisition times (e.g. 20 minute brain scan)
• High Quality Clinical Images (click to request Dicom’s)
• Quick patient setup automated workflow,
• Easy/friendly, software, automatic-parameters, user refinements.
• Six directional automated table, laser guided, constant iso-centering images.

A better patient experience leads to:

• Less patient motion and artifacts, fewer rescans
  Higher reimbursements, lower expense, faster ROI.
• More exams and billing including the 20% too scared to schedule one.
• Fewer cancellations, less empty slots and rescheduling.
• Cost-effectiveness leads to a freeing up of funds to invest in additional equipment, facilities, staffing and treatments (graph to the left shows the number of new or additional daily exams to recoup the dollar investment or paying off less than 10 months (e.g. assume other costs constant, if five exams per day at an average of $500, recovers the initial investment in less than ten months).