Open Bore MRI
Our new Open Bore MRI will address comfort like no other. The Espree offers 1 foot of spacious headroom, so patients will no longer feel like they’re nose-to-nose with the top of the magnet. Even better, for most of the exams your head won’t have to even be in the system due to its very short design. You won’t experience that in any other MRI.
Most of all, it’s the most powerful open on the market today, so you can rest easy inside and also rest easy with a confident diagnosis. Larger patients are often referred to conventional Open MRIs due to capacity. However, traditional Open MRIs are much less powerful and produce lower quality images for your physician. But now you don’t have to sacrifice diagnostic accuracy for comfort.
The Espree’s extra-large Open Bore will accommodate patients of all sizes and is perfect for those who get anxious during an MRI. Due to its short design, most exams can be done with your head outside of the system. No other MRI can offer that. Most importantly, its high power delivers the best images for the best care.
What does an MRI scan show?
Using an MRI scanner, it is possible to make pictures of almost all the tissue in the body. The tissue that has the least hydrogen atoms (such as bones) turns out dark, while the tissue that has many hydrogen atoms (such as fatty tissue) looks much brighter. By changing the timing of the radio wave pulses it is possible to gain information about the different types of tissues that are present. An MRI scan is also able to provide clear pictures of parts of the body that are surrounded by bone tissue, so the technique is useful when examining the brain and spinal cord.
Because the MRI scan gives very detailed pictures it is the best technique when it comes to finding tumors (benign or malignant abnormal growths) in the brain. If a tumor is present the scan can also be used to find out if it has spread into nearby brain tissue.
The technique also allows us to focus on other details in the brain. For example, it makes it possible to see the strands of abnormal tissue that occur if someone has multiple sclerosis and it is possible to see changes occurring when there is bleeding in the brain, or find out if the brain tissue has suffered lack of oxygen after a stroke.
The MRI scan is also able to show both the heart and the large blood vessels in the surrounding tissue. This makes it possible to detect heart defects that have been building up since birth, as well as changes in the thickness of the muscles around the heart following a heart attack.
This sophisticated system allows direct cross sectional imaging in three planes of any area in the body including:
- NEURO
- SPINE
- ORTHOPEDIC
- CHEST/ABDOMEN/PELVIS
- MR ANGIOGRAPHY