13 OCT 2016

MRI Coming to VacaValley Hospital Campus

The Toshiba MRI

Construction is underway on a modular building to house the first permanent MRI on the NorthBay VacaValley Hospital campus. The project should be completed in late November.

About 12 parking spaces in the hospital’s northeast parking lot have been fenced off as a construction zone for the duration of the project.Some parking sports in the employee lot north of VacaValley Hospital are temporarily taken over during construction.

The $1.5 million, state-of-the-art MRI will be operated by Solano Diagnostics Imaging. It is a Toshiba Vantage Titan, Open-bore 1.5 Tesla (high field) MRI featuring quiet technology and high-definition scanning. It has the shortest magnet with the largest field of vision currently available in the industry.

“The Toshiba MRI is designed with patient comfort in mind,” says Adrian Riggs, assistant vice president of NorthBay Health Advantage. “We have used this model in Fairfield since 2014 with great success.”

MRI acoustic noise is one of the major complaints of patients and medical staff. Toshiba’s patented Pianissimo technology significantly reduces the noise in and around the MRI environment, making exams more comfortable and easier to complete. With Pianissimo, MRI no longer needs to be loud and disruptive.

The Vantage Titan’s ultra-short open bore offers up to 100 percent more clearance space above the patient. This provides the room needed for bariatric patients and allows patients to be scanned without having their heads inside the magnet.

The MRI also performs a wider range of exams, from bariatric to breast and non-contrast imaging, with far fewer limitations than open MRI systems.

 

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