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Joanna Padovano, Reporter | September 23, 2011
From the September 2011 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Does that mean that 3T MRIs are on the brink of replacing 1.5T systems? Not necessarily. “Right now 1.5T is still [dominant] and I think there’s a lot of opportunities there for the foreseeable future for 1.5T,” says Etheridge, “3T is a very, very powerful platform and there’s been some recent enhancements that have kind of addressed some of the longer term problems . . . but I’m not sure it’s ready to displace 1.5T as a clinical workhorse.”
Etheridge believes that in the years to come, the MR sector is going to become increasingly concerned with the patient experience. “I think in the past you could kind of just scan people and they would sort of put up with anything but I think now . . . you have a choice [in equipment] out there and folks are sensitive to this now.”
Mitchell feels that the MR sector needs to work harder at addressing the consumer’s needs and to “continue to look at the customer’s total cost of ownership through things like upfront costs, installation costs, and costs of upgrading the system during the ownership period,” he says.
“The technology will move forward spectacularly and relentlessly,” says Thrall in reference to future of MRI. “The financial forces on the health system will also be relentless with downward pressure on reimbursement and increasing difficulty maintaining state of the art facilities.”
Suresh Narayan also forecasts that MR technology will continue to grow. “There’s going to be more and more innovation done in either magnet technology or gradient technology or RF chains technology,” he says. “There’s going to be new technology, new innovation in pretty much all areas of MR and it will continue to serve the population . . . I see a bright future for MR.”
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