Additional features include couch movement from the operator's console, auto-stitching software for seamless PACS integration, expanded sequence flexibility on field echo sequences, fully supported HIPAA functionality and additional patient positioning pads.

The Vantage, Toshiba's 1.5-tesla (1.5T) high-field MRI system, features an ultra-short magnet at 140 cm with linear 30 mT/m (milliTesla per meter) gradient strength with a slew rate of 50 T/m/s (Tesla per meter per second) (AGV), 86 T/m/s (MGV) or 130 T/m/s (XGV). Despite the shorter magnet, the system still delivers the highest homogeneity of any magnet in the industry over the full 50 cm diameter spherical volume (DSV).


The Vantage also features several optional packages including Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Freeze Frame Imaging, Fat Free Imaging and new Body Vision, a diffusion technique using Echo Planar Imaging.

With Toshiba's patented Pianissimo technology, which reduces acoustic noise by as much as 90 percent over other magnets, the Vantage dramatically reduces the most significant cause of patient discomfort with vacuum enveloped gradients and enables clinicians to better utilize all of the system's high-field MRI capabilities including SPEEDER parallel imaging for increased acquisition speed which reduces examination times. For more information about the Vantage, TAMS and its wide range of medical imaging products, please visit
www.medical.toshiba.com.


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