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Jun 02, 2023
Philips breakthrough MR 7700 system adds Xenon capabilities to enhance ventilation imaging at ISMRM 2023
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Philips’ Xenon enabled MRI combined with XENOVIEW from Polarean can provide pulmonologists, surgeons and respiratory specialists with regional maps of ventilation in patients’ lungs to assist in better managing disease states.
Philips has entered into a collaboration with medical imaging company Polarean to advance the field of hyperpolarized Xenon MRI for patients with respiratory illness. Philips will showcase its 3T MR 7700 system, featuring fully integrated multi-nuclei imaging, at the 2023 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2023, June 3-8, 2023, Toronto, Canada). The Philips 3T MR 7700 and Polarean XENOVIEWTM (xenon Xe 129 hyperpolarized) enable an advanced solution for the evaluation of lung ventilation based on Xenon gas MR imaging, providing clinical confidence. XENOVIEW is indicated for use with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for evaluation of lung ventilation in adults and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older. Xenoview has not been evaluated for use with lung perfusion imaging [1].
The first XENOVIEW clinical scan in North America recently took place at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center on a Philips MRI system using the 510(k) cleared multi-nuclei imaging scanning module. Inhalation of an anoxic gas such as XENOVIEW may cause transient hypoxemia in susceptible patients. Patients should be monitored for oxygen desaturation and symptoms of hypoxemia and treated as clinically indicated.
“This technology is groundbreaking and is already starting to make a difference to patients and providers, who want to know which parts of the lungs are functioning, which have obstruction, and how effective new therapies are,” said Dr. Jason Woods, Director of Pulmonary Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Cincinnati. “The partnership between Philips and Polarean demonstrates a cutting-edge technique can be rapidly incorporated into a major MRI platform, without sacrificing quality.”
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