(386) 677-7730 (386) 677-7731 - Fax
Stand-Up MRI & Diagnostic Center, Inc.
555 West Granada Blvd., Suite H-1
Ormond Beach, FL, 32174
Tax ID: 59-3097338 NPI: 1720053515
Upright Multi-Position Weight-Bearing MRI
| Specifications | THE FONAR UPRIGHT® WEIGHT-BEARING MRI (also known as the Stand-Up® MRI) |
| Unique Applications | Rotates patients from recumbent to upright |
| Comparative scans in both Upright and Recumbent positions | |
| Flexion, Extension, Standing, Sitting and Lateral Bending positions | |
| Scans patients in their position of symptoms | |
| Ideal for anxious and claustrophobic patients | |
| The only choice for patients that cannot lie down | |
| Magnet | |
| Field Strength | 0.6 Tesla |
| Magnet Type | Iron-frame Electromagnet |
| Cooling System Type | Water (closed-loop); No Cryogens |
| Field Orientation | Horizontal, transverse to the patient |
| Configuration | Front-Open and Top-Open |
| Patient Gap Dimensions | 18 inches (46cm) pole-to-pole |
| Patient Comfort | Upright/Sitting patient faces out and can watch a large flat-screen TV with an unobstructed view |
| Patient Bed | |
| Positioning Capabilities | Translate, Elevate & Angulate |
| Rotates patient from recumbent to upright | |
| Patient Stabilization | Table tilts backward at 7 degrees to reduce patient motion |
| Patient immobilization fixtures | |
| VersaRest™ trans-polar stabilization bars | |
| RF Receiver Coil Placement | RF coils mount easily to movable fixtures |
| Patient Weight Limit | 500 lbs. |
| Radiofrequency System | |
| Transmitter Configuration | Dedicated, Circularly Polarized, Planar |
| Receiver Configuration | Dual-channel |
| RF RECEIVER COILS | |
| Standard Package | |
| Solenoid/Linear | High-Performance Spine & Body Wide Belts (45", 55", 65" |
| Flexible Cervical | |
| Signal-Plus Universal Coils | |
| Solenoid Wrist | |
| Advanced Coil Package | |
| Planar | Quadrature Planar Coil and fixture |
| [Note that the Upright MRI is dramatically different than an Open MRI as if utilizes planar (flat) coils to image the spine, just like a high-field MRI] | |
| Quadrature | Quadrature Head Coil |
| Quadrature T-L (Thoracic-Lumbar) Coil | |
| Quadrature Knee Coil | |
| Phased Array | Shoulder (with Immobilization Fixture) |
| Computer System | |
| Operating System | Windows 2003 Server |
| CPU | Dual Intel Quad-Core processors |
| Memory size, GB | 8.0 GB |
| Online Storage | Three 146 GB disk drives configured in a redundant RAID array with a storage capacity of 290GB |
| Array processor | Not required |
| Reconstruction Speed | < 0.1 sec per 256x256 image |
| Storage media | CD/DVD (5GB) |
| Connectivity | Dicom 3.0 including Store, Print, Query, Retrieve and Modality Worklist |
| Console Configuration | Dual-screen 1280x1024 19-inch LCD flat panel monitors with full screen dedicated to image review |
| Gradient System | |
| Type | Bi-planar self-shielding |
| Maximum Strength (mT/m) | 20 |
| Slew Rate (T/m/s) | 33 |
| Minimum Slice Thickness | 2.0 mm (2DFT) |
| 0.8 mm (3DFT) | |
| Minimum Field-of-View | 6.0 cm |
| Imaging Techniques | |
| Pulse Sequences | Spin Echo (SE) |
| Multi-echo spin echo (MSE) | |
| Dual bandwidth Double-echo (DE) | |
| Fast Spin Echo (FSE) | |
| Inversion Recovery Spin Echo (IRSE) | |
| Inversion Recovery FSE (IRFSE): STIR, FLAIR | |
| Driven Equilibrium FSE (DEFSE) | |
| Driven Equilibrium IRFSE (DEIRFSE) | |
| Single-shot FSE (SSFSE) | |
| Gradient Echo (GRE): | |
| Fat/Water out-of-phase | |
| Multi-echo GRE (Fat/Water in/out/in phase) | |
| Gradient Spoiled GRE | |
| Steady-State GRE: | |
| RF Spoiled GRE, Steady-State Rephased GRE | |
| MR Angiography: | |
| 2D-TOF and 3-D-TOF | |
| Ramped RF | |
| Sequence Controls | |
| Fast Spin Echo | Driven Equilibrium |
| Echo Train Length, Echo Offset, Echo Spacing | |
| Gradient Echo | Flip Angle |
| Steady-State, RF Spoiling, Rephased | |
| Magnetization transfer (MT) | |
| Direction of flow saturation | |
| Scan orientations | Multi-Angle Oblique (MAO™), Dual-Axis Oblique |
| Preparation Pulses | Presaturation pulses |
| Magnetization transfer (MT) | |
| Frequency Selective Saturation (e.g. fat, water, silicone) | |
| Diffusion-Weighted (DWI) | |
| Trigger/Timing | Test Bolus |
| Breathhold, Fluorscopic | |
| Reconstruction | Fast Fourier Transform (DFT): 2DFT, 3DFT |
| Partial (Half) Fourier | |
| ZIP interpolation | |
| 2-point Dixon, 3-point Dixon for Fat Suppression | |
| Firing Order | Cross-talk minimization |
| Interleaved | |
| Interleaved by Subscan (e.g. breathhold) | |
| Sequential | |
| Data Acquisition | Rectangular FOV (continuously variable phase sampling ratio) |
| Multiple Sub-Scanning | |
| Centric Phase Encoding | |
| Flow Compensation, Ramped RF | |
| Low Bandwidth, Multi-bandwidth | |
| Continuously Variable Display Matrix | |
| Swap Frequency and Phase | |
| Repeat and Replace Slices | |
| Continuous Scan Mode, Breath-hold Imaging, Kinematic Mode | |
| Prescan Indicators | Relative resolution |
| Absolute resolution (frequency and phase) | |
| Post-Processing | MIP with rotate, tumble, pan |
| Image enhancement | |
| Bright Balance™ | |
| Display and Analysis | Windowing, ROI, zoom, pan |
| Cursors, profiles, derivatives, mean, standard deviation | |
| Image subtraction | |
| SNR measurements | |
| Image Viewing Software (IVS) for referring physiciand to view their patients' scans on a CD |