Technology for Signa EXCITE HD 1.5T and 3.0T


"The power of HD technology reaps meaningful rewards in my clinical practices."

Dr. Lawrence N. Tanenbaum
Section Chief MRI, CT and Neuroradiology,
New Jersey Neuroscience Institute

What is HD MR? High Definition Magnetic Resonance.

Like high definition TV, HD MR achieves


  • Higher Resolution
  • Better depiction of moving objects
  • Alternative scanning strategies to minimize artifacts


What does HDMR mean to you? HDMR provides the clinician high resolution to produce a more definitive diagnosis. GE’s revolutionary combination of HD technology and HD applications serves the needs of the most difficult patients.

You can now achieve:

  • Enhanced vascular detail in staging the diabetic limb for surgery.
  • Enhanced speed of acquisition to image living processes in real-time. No breath hold or ECG gating required.
  • Diagnosis of the most challenging cases without artifacts. Scan unsedated or uncooperative patients in the presence of gross motion.


What Makes HD MR Work?

Like HDTV, HDMR works through a combination of HD hardware and HD programming:

Acquisition, Gradients, Human Interface Propeller- Brain Imaging, TRICKS- Angiographic Imaging, VIBRANT- Breast Imaging, LAVA- Abdominal Imaging, MR Echo- Cardiac Imaging

HD Acquisition enables:   Simultaneous use of all receivers to enhance image definition.

  • 1-to-1 relationship of receivers and array processing power
    • 4X increase in data processing power
    • 1700 FFT/sec (full 256 x 256)