GE HealthCare Unveils SIGNA Champion, a 1.5T Wide Bore MRI System Powered by AI for High Performance and Patient Comfort

• AI & Deep Learning – SIGNA Champion is designed to offer several AI-enabled workflow features, supporting efficiency, and delivering image quality excellence for users of all experience levels.
  • SIGNA Champion is compatible with AIR Recon DL, providing exceptionally high image quality which potentially leads to more precise diagnoses. The benefits of AIR Recon DL are extended from 2D exams to 3D and PROPELLER to nearly all MRI clinical procedures, covering all anatomies and enabling better image quality, shorter scan times, and enhanced patient experience. To date, an estimated 16 million patients have been scanned with AIR Recon DL³.  
  • SIGNA Champion is also compatible with Sonic DL, which offers new imaging paradigms such as high-quality cardiac MRI in a single heartbeat, reducing scan time by up to 83%⁴. When applied to cardiac imaging, Sonic DL extends MRI access to cardiac patients with arrhythmias and breath-holding challenges, helping to ensure swift, consistent, and more comfortable exams.

• Patient Comfort - SIGNA Champion’s unique combination of generous patient clearance inside the bore, short scan times and GE HealthCare’s  award winning AIR Coils support a more natural & comfortable patient experience. This is especially beneficial for patients experiencing significant pain and discomfort including pregnant and bariatric patients, patients unable to lie on their backs (e.g., Osteoporosis), and patients with breathing difficulties as examples. AIR Coils wrap around the patient like a blanket, offering a thinner, lighter solution compared to conventional RF coils, enhancing patient comfort with exceptional image quality.
   

AIR Recon DL, Sonic DL and AIR Coils are solutions within GE HealthCare’s Effortless Imaging Portfolio.

Sustainability and Operational Benefits

• • SIGNA Champion is GE HealthCare’s smallest footprint and most power efficient 1.5T wide bore system.⁵ With shorter scans times, the system is designed to save power, increase throughput, and enhance the overall patient experience.
  • With its highly scalable platform, SIGNA Champion is designed to support broader affordability, configurability, and upgradability to support services expansion for health systems. This can help improve health equity, allowing a wider range of access to the most advanced technologies for all patients.
     

For more information on SIGNA Champion, visit Booth 7326 at RSNA or visit www.gehealthcare.com

1. SIGNA Champion is 510(k) pending at FDA. Not available for sale in the USA. Not yet CE Marked. Not available in all regions.   
2. https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/magnetic-resonance-imaging-mri-units.htm
3. calculated by IB data with estimation 20 scans per day, 5.5 working day in a week, fully start using AIR™ Recon DL 4 weeks after delivery, as of Oct 31st, 2023.  
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GE HealthCare is a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator, dedicated to providing integrated solutions, services, and data analytics to make hospitals more efficient, clinicians more effective, therapies more precise, and patients healthier and happier. Serving patients and providers for more than 100 years, GE HealthCare is advancing personalized, connected, and compassionate care, while simplifying the patient’s journey across the care pathway. Together our Imaging, Ultrasound, Patient Care Solutions, and Pharmaceutical Diagnostics businesses help improve patient care from diagnosis, to therapy, to monitoring. We are an $18.3 billion business with 50,000 employees working to create a world where healthcare has no limits.

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