Fujifilm Debuts New ECHELON Synergy 1.5T MRI System Software

FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation has launched the Version 10 (v10) suite of innovations for ECHELON Synergy 1.5T MRI system, which deploys cutting-edge technologies such as Synergy DLR Clear, Synergy Vision with StillShot, and automated scanning process enhancements.

A recent study found that patient motion forces 15% to 20% of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to be repeated. Synergy Vision, now available for ECHELON Synergy MRI, combines multiple in-bore cameras with StillShot artificial intelligence (AI) to mitigate motion artifacts impact. StillShot applies AI to correct motion-compromised raw data, referencing real time motion tracking collected during the scan. Rather than repeating the scan, motion can be corrected, providing clearer, more diagnostic images. StillShot helps streamline workflow for the technologist and provide a better experience for the patient according to FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation.

The ”Gibbs” or “truncation” artifact has long been an image quality issue with MRI. Radiologists traditionally have either tolerated it or insisted on longer scan time sequences to address it. Synergy v10 featres DLR Clear, a new AI-based algorithm to address the truncation artifact, producing images with mitigated artifact without a scan time extension.

“Radial scanning in MRI serves as a common approach to address patient motion, but the technique faced challenges in certain circumstances from unique artifacts. Fujifilm’s v10 software enhancement was designed to help address these challenges,” said Shawn Etheridge, executive director, modality solutions marketing, for FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation. “With v10, technologists can now apply our RADAR radial sequence with our iterative iRCM IP-Recon processing to mitigate spike artifacts, resulting in clear, high-quality images with reduced motion artifact.”

Deep Learning enhanced AutoPose for breast, hip and spine application are added with ECHELON Synergy’s v10. AutoPose automatic slice selection, combined with expansion to whole body application for the AutoSet automated table movement capability, and AutoStart automatic scan start on door closure can save operator steps, enable reduced total exam times, and allow technologists to better focus on patients.

FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation is a Lexington, Mass.-based healthcare company with a range of technology and expertise in detecting, diagnosing, and treating diseases. Fujifilm’s portfolio includes solutions spanning diagnostic imaging, enterprise imaging, endoscopic imaging, surgical imaging, and in-vitro diagnostics.

FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, leverages its depth of knowledge and proprietary core technologies to deliver products and services globally through four key business segments: healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. Under its medium-term management plan, VISION2030, the 70,000-employee company is striving to evolve into a company that creates value and smiles for various stakeholders as a collection of global leading businesses and achieve 4 trillion yen in worldwide revenue.