Advanced Neuro Applications


Cube

Cube
Cube is a 3D isotropic imaging technique with sub-millimeter spatial resolution and excellent contrast to help visualize even diminutive lesions. 3D data from a single scan can be quickly and easily reconstructed into any plane with the same high resolution of the native plane. 		 

IDEAL

IDEAL
IDEAL provides consistent, robust fat and water separation every time, even in difficult to scan anatomies and in the presence of metal implants. Four different contrasts: water only, fat only, in-phase, out-of-phase are generated from a single acquisition, for confident diagnoses and fewer repeat exams.
 
     

SWAN

SWAN
This multi-echo 3D imaging technique helps visualize and clearly delineate small vessels and micro bleeds, large vascular structures, and iron or calcium deposits in the brain. SWAN generates more than twice SNR compared to a conventional T2*, producing excellent images and allowing high spatial resolution. 		 

PROPELLER HD

PROPELLER HD
PROPELLER HD corrects for patient motion and enhance tissue contrast without compromising image resolution or prolonging scan time – helping clearly visualize even small or subtle lesions in uncooperative patients or in difficult to image anatomy.
 
     

BrainWave RT

BrainWave RT
BrainWave RT is a powerful real-time fMRI data acquisition package. It consists of an EPI sequence with synchronized paradigm delivery and integrated quality control. The BOLD activation data is displayed in real time with the image quality indicators. Intuitive user interface makes it simple for a single technologist to manage the acquisition, paradigm delivery and reconstruction process. 		 

BrainWave PA

BrainWave PA
BrainWave PA is a post-processing package for fMRI datasets acquired with BrainWave RT. Raw data can be reviewed, edited and visualized as activation maps co-registered with high resolution 3D anatomic data set.
 
   

BrainWave RT

BrainWave Fusion
BrainWave Fusion provides the ability to fuse high-resolution anatomical images with fMRI activation maps and white matter tractography. The application supports evaluation of the spatial relationship between eloquent cortex, brain connectivity, and underlying anatomy and pathology. 		 

Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Diffusion Tensor Imaging
DTI is a technique used in brain neuro applications for white matter tract visualizations. Post-processing tools such as Functool and FiberTrak (optional) can be applied to the DTI data set to visualize fractional anisotropy maps, eigenvectors and 3D tractography.
 
   

BrainWave RT

FiberTrak
The FiberTrak option adds color FA maps, color eigenvector maps, and 3D tractography, a white matter fibers trajectories projection co-registered with high definition 3D anatomies data set capabilities to the standard Functool DTI. 		 

3D COSMIC

3D COSMIC
3D COSMIC generates optimized grey/white matter contrast in the spine, helping visualize nerve roots and inter-vertebral disks, while maintaining soft-tissue contrast.
 
   

PROBE-PRESS Spectroscopy

PROBE-PRESS Spectroscopy
PROBE - PRESS single voxel spectroscopy allows non-invasive evaluation of the relative concentrations of in-vivo metabolites. Volume-localized, water-suppressed H1 spectra are acquired and displayed in a single-voxel mode. The package includes acquisition set-up, graphic prescription of spectroscopic volumes and automatic reconstruction. 		 

PROBE-STEAM Spectroscopy

PROBE-STEAM Spectroscopy
PROBE - STimulated Echo Acquisition Mode acquires a stimulated echo from the localized volume, providing more accurate voxel localization. Since echo times available with STEAM CSI can be shorter, it is better suited than PRESS for chemical species that have shorter T2.
 
   

PROBE-2D CSI

PROBE-2D CSI
This extends the PROBE-PRESS capabilities with simultaneous multi-voxel in-plane acquisitions. Post- processing, including the generation of metabolite maps, is automatically generated with the functool Performance package. 		 

PROBE-3D CSI

PROBE-3D CSI
This add 3D multi-voxel acquisitions, extending the PROBE-2D CSI capabilities (PROBE 2D CSI is mandatory).
 


Advanced Body, Breast & MSK Applications


LAVA XV

LAVA XV
LAVA-XV is a self-calibrated acquisition technique optimized for imaging of abdomen and pelvis. Simultaneous acceleration in both the phase encoding and the slice select direction results in high spatial and temporal resolution images acquired in a single breath hold. LAVA XV comes standard with ScanTools package. 		 

StarMap

StarMap
StarMap generates grayscale and color maps that show the T2* or rate of signal decay (R2*), helping assess iron concentration in the liver and myocardial tissue.
 
   

VIBRANT XV

VIBRANT XV
VIBRANT-XV acquires simultaneous high definition fat-suppressed bilateral breast images in axial or sagittal planes. VIBRANT XV deploys the GE-exclusive GEM acceleration technique to acquire high resolution faster. VIBRANT-XV automatically optimizes scan parameters, helping technologists get consistent image quality.

BREASE

BREASE
BREASE helps enhance diagnostic confidence by improving the ability to characterize lesions and monitor response to therapy. It is a breast-specific, single-voxel spectroscopy application designed for ease-of-use and enhanced visualization.
     

PROSE

PROSE
The PROSE Prostate package brings 3D Spectroscopy to the prostate adding high resolution Spectroscopy to the imaging capabilities already available on Signa systems. 		 

CartiGram

CartiGram
CartiGram is a non-invasive imaging technique that provides high-resolution T2 value maps of cartilage and other tissues. The color-coded T2 maps help assess articular cartilage integrity, providing the information help to determine the best course of treatment.
 


Advanced Cardiovascular Applications


Inhance

Inhance
The new GE suite of NCE MRA applications is robust, fast and easy to use. Inhance Inflow IR, Inhance 3D Velocity and Inhance 2D Inflow sequences deliver consistent, reproducible MRA data even in difficult-to-scan anatomies, resulting in fewer rescans and more confident differential diagnoses. 		 

TRICKS-XV

TRICKS-XV
TRICKS XV uses an innovative time resolved k-space filling, sophisticated data reconstruction and parallel acceleration techniques to allow increased temporal resolution without sacrificing SNR or spatial resolution. TRICKS eliminates the need for test injections of contrast or triggering. The acquired data includes multiphase images of the entire arterial and venous filling, providing high-resolution information about flow dynamics and allowing reliable arterial-venous separation.
 
   

MR Echo

MR Echo
MR Echo provides an environment and tools for generating high-definition cardiac exams in real time without the need for respiratory or ECG gating. MR Echo employs accelerated FIESTA, time course or myocardial delayed enhancement techniques to perform cardiac exam in real time, in a non-gated or VCG-gated modi. The intuitive interface enables the user to quickly scan the heart in any orientation and to save real time images.

2D FIESTA

2D FIESTA
The FIESTA 2D pulse sequence provides excellent blood to myocardium contrast optimized for cardiac imaging. The short TR/TE capability of this sequence allows acquisition of high quality cardiac images that are less sensitive to turbulent blood flow.
     

3D FIESTA

3D FIESTA
The FIESTA 3D pulse sequence provides excellent high-resolution images of fluid filled structures in very rapid acquisition times. FIESTA employs ultra-short TR's and TE's for very fast scan times with outstanding image contrast. 		 

3D FIESTA-C

3D FIESTA-C
This phase-cycled FIESTA technique reduces sensitivity to changes in magnetic susceptibility that may be encountered when imaging e.g. posterior fossa and anatomies near air-tissue boundaries. Extremely short TR helps generate high-resolution SNR-rich 3D images of fluid filled structures with effective background tissue suppression, in rapid scan times.
 
     

3D FatSat FIESTA

3D FatSat FIESTA
3D FatSat FIESTA provides robust coronary artery imaging in a short breath-hold. Fat suppression is applied to accentuate the coronary arteries. 		 

3D FatSat FIESTA Cardiac

3D FatSat FIESTA Cardiac
This free breathing acquisition with improved navigator echo technique is a 3D steady-state free precession sequence optimized for fast, fat-suppressed cardiac imaging.
 
     

FGRE-ET

FGRE-ET
The Fast Gradient Echo-Echo Train pulse sequence provides dynamic high temporal and spatial resolution images of the myocardium that are ideally suited for the evaluation of myocardium. 		 

FGRE-ET Real Time

FGRE-ET Real Time
FGRE-ET uses a short TR GRE pulse sequence that acquires multiple phase steps per TR using an EPI echo train. FGRE-ET RT is a single slice real time version used to obtain localizer images for cardiac imaging.
 
     

Myocardial Delayed Enhancement

Myocardial Delayed Enhancement
MDE is a FGRE technique with IR Prep used to assess myocardial tissue viability. Adiabatic inversion recovery for homogenous myocardium suppression is employed to improve CNR between infarcted and normal myocardium.

2D Myocardial Delayed Enhancement 		 

Myocardial Delayed Enhancement

SWIFT-XV
SWIFT application combines TRICKS, parallel imaging technology, a unique dual-slab 3D data acquisition strategy and GE's exclusive 32-element peripheral vascular array to produce high-resolution images of the vascular tree in significantly reduces scan times.
 
3D Myocardial Delayed Enhancement
   

Fluoro-Triggered MRA

Fluoro-Triggered MRA Fluoro-triggered MRA (FTMRA) is designed to capture angiographic images at the precise moment of peak opacification. Rather than automating the image-acquisition upon detection of the bolus arrival, FTMRA allows the operator to trigger each acquisition almost instantly (less than 1 second switch over), as soon as the operator is satisfied with the level of vessel enhancement. The result is an interactive, ASSET compatible, accurate approach to contrast-enhanced MRA.

Cardiac Tagging

Cardiac Tagging
Used to improve visualization of contractile function, this tagging application combines cardiac-gated FastCINE gradient-recalled echo to acquire data throughout the cardiac cycle, with spatial SAT pulses applied throughout the FOV. Using the operator's choice of diagonal stripes or a grid pattern, tagging is applied once per R-R interval immediately following the R-wave ECG trigger, just before the start of data acquisition.
 
 
     

3D Cardiac Navigator

3D Cardiac Navigator
The Cardiac Navigator feature combines a cardiac gated, 3D Fast GRE or 3D FIESTA sequence with a navigator pulse that tracks the motion of the diaphragm. By placing the navigator tracker pulse over the right hemi-diaphragm, the acquisition is synchronized to the end-expiration respiratory phase of the patient thus minimizing respiratory ghosting artifacts.
  

Spiral Hi-Res & Real-TimeMRA

Spiral Hi-Res & Real-Time
Spiral Hi-Res obtains high-resolution images in ultra-fast scan times. This sequence is well suited for obtaining images of the coronary arteries. Spiral Hi-Res acquisitions can be performed in a cardiac gated or non-gated method using a Spiral GRE or SPGR sequence.

Spiral Hi-Res - Spiral Real-Time can be used for the quick localization of anatomy lying in double-oblique planes and in areas where motion can be a problem, such as the coronary arteries.

Spiral Real-Time -
 


Advanced Workflow Tools


iDRIVE Pro Plus
   SAGE 7

iDRIVE Pro Plus expands the capabilities of standard iDrive Pro with Geometric changes to image plane location, obliquity, rotation, center FOV and FOV size, contrast parameters such as spatial pre-saturation on/off, special sat pulses, flow comp and RF spoiling, application of a non-selective IR pulse, and swapping phase and frequency. 		 
SAGE 7 allows one to process, display, manipulate, analyze, manage and print in- vivo spectroscopy data via an easy-to-use, graphical interface. This powerful toolkit furnishes a wide array of filters, transformations, correction algorithms, and segmentation and measurement tools to extract the information contained in spectroscopy data.