Established in 1985 and later inaugurated in 1987 by Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, this nationally renowned Hospital is spread over 12 acres of prime real estate. It is today a comprehensive resource of men and machines with the reputation of a multi-speciality private hospital of high stand.000ards in the capital. The Hospital meets the objective of providing high quality Medicare with value for money for privileged patients and at the same time offers its charitable services for the economically weaker sections of society. The Hospital runs free OPD for poor patients and 10% of the bed strength is reserved for poor patients treated free of cost in the Hospital.

Shri A L Batra President	Dr R K Mathur Chief Coordinator and Head of Imaging

Batra Hospital has started a major modernisation drive to upgrade the facilities to Best in the world class. The Hospital plans of adding another 200 beds by building a separate block within the Hospital campus. The work on this has already started and a 8 storey hitech building will be ready in about 9 months™ time.

The Hospital will be starting a Trauma Centre, Super- speciality of Neuro Sciences with advance facility for Orthopaedics, OB/GYN and Paediatrics.

The Batra Hospital already has speciality departments in Cardiology and Oncology with some of the best known doctors in this field.

In its ongoing process of expansion, the Hospital has created the most advanced Radiology and Imaging Department. The Hospital has recently acquired the most powerful 1.5 Tesla MRI Scanner - GE Signa MR/i EchoSpeed Plus and GE LOGIQ 700 Expert Digital Ultrasound Scanner. Both units are the latest and the best in the world with many new features available for the first time in India. The Hospital is planning to install a PACS system and will be amongst the first hospitals in Delhi to operate in a digital film-less environment. The Hospital is also planning to start using Tele-radiology between its sister institution in Jammu from where CT, MRI, X-Ray and Ultrasound images will be sent to Delhi digitally on regular basis for Expert advice and second opinion. The Hospital also plans to open a special service to share its expertise with other institutions across the world to provide second Expert opinion on Medical Images using this system.

	The Signa MR/i with very powerful Gradients and high B value Diffusion and Perfusion imaging will be able to detect Brain Attack within minutes of onset. This will give the neurologist sufficient time to aggressively treat patients of stroke before a permanent damage to brain is done.

The vision of the hospital in the new millennium according to the founder, Shri. Batra is that all efforts are focused to ensure that we can identify the disease early, treat early, with most minimally invasive techniques at a minimum cost to the patient and society.

Wipro GE is proud to be part of Batra Hospital™s drive towards productivity and quality health care to the masses.

New techniques of MRCP-Magnetic Resonance Cholangio- Pancreatography (Relating to the Gall bladder and biliary system) can replace diagnostic ERCP.

Dr R K Mathur, Chief Coordinator & Head of Imaging, and Dr G P Vashist, Director of Imaging, Batra Hospital spoke to IMAGES on the occasion of inaugurating their new imaging facilities - GE LOGIQ 700 Expert Series and GE Signa interactive MRI System.

Batra Hospital has installed India™s first whole body and first fully interactive MR imaging system to let doctors take self-guided, real-time tours inside patients - even when the patient is breathing and moving. The interactive controlled software, GE iDrive, takes quick, continuous images of the patient™s anatomy after the patient enters the Magnet. This helps doctors find lesions or irtrouble spotslb quicker, said Dr. Mathur, Director and Chief Co-ordinator of Batra Hospital, Department of Imaging.

i"The new GE iDrive software is similar to looking through a camera view finder before deciding exactly where to snap the photograph," says Dr. R.K. Mathur. "Doctors can actually "drive around" within the patient™s anatomy in real time to find the best places to take images. When they are looking inside the patient, doctors create a more accurate, individualized and shorter patient examination by panning, rotating and tilting the pictures they see." Once a lesion is found, it helps to provide doctors with even more detailed information about the location of the lesion within the organ, so that they can study the progression of diseases, recommend surgery options and plan treatment programs.

	Using advance functional imaging techniques available for the first time, the Neuro Surgeons at Batra hospital will be able to mark areas of motor, speech activity before surgery accurately and plan surgery accordingly, thus greatly improving the outcome.

"This new software gives clear, sharp images in less time than ever before," said Dr. Mathur." This means that we can free patients from the discomfort of long examinations. For example, when patients feel ill, it can be difficult for them to hold their breath while a radiologist takes images. Faster MR scanning means shorter breath holds and quicker examinations overall."

Unprecedented High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Angiography will be possible for all organs in a non-invasive manner including Cardiac, Carotids, Circle of Willis, Renal and Peripheral Angiography.

Interactive patient scanning is taken to a new level with GE iDrive software program, according to Dr. Mathur."Doctors can do motion studies watching patients flex their joints or examining organs in the abdomen while patients breath."

iDrive also measures how long it takes for a contrast agent to travel from the point of injection to the blood vessel being studied. For example, when doctors want to study patient leg arteries and veins, such as for peripheral vascular disease (PVD), the doctor will use the MRI to completely scan the abdomen through the legs-all in 1-2 minutes with a single contrast injection.

By allowing faster imaging, the software reduces image interference caused by patient movement or blood flow.

Even in challenging neck artery studies, where the blood travels very quickly, iDrive has proved to be more than 97 percent reliable for timing the travel of the contrast to get the sharpest quality images.

	Summarizing the capability of new MRI, Dr. Mathur says the MRI is capable of handling many future applications like Coronary Angiography today and can be performed as soon as these become clinically acceptable.