We have the finest MRI equipment in Delaware. Our new Lewes office has the finest MRI scanner in the state. 32 channels means our scanner is EVEN better than twicer as good! We perform all basic MRI services such as MRI of the Brain, Soft Tissue Neck, Cspine, Tspine, Lspine, Sacrum and Coccyx, Abdomen, Breast, Chest, Cardiac, Knee, Shoulder, Ankle, Wrist, Foot, Toes, Fingers, Pelvis and Prostate. Our scans are more detailed but also faster because 3T scans are up to 4 times faster. We use that extra spedd to get fhigher resolution scans. We can do specialized high resolution studies of the rectum, prostate and cervix without an endorectal coil. Just a week ago we picked up a small metastasis to bone from prostate cancer which was not detected by bone scan or CT. This is because we have twice the signal to noise (SNR) of most other scanners and the improvement lets us scan the high resolution images without the special invasive coil. Our coccyx images are done in the lumbar coil and are incredible. FAT SAT and bone detail is improved at 3T. Most other doctors have never even seen the amazing detail of 3T. Your doctor may not know or even understand why 3T is better but the doctors at University of Penn and Hopkins insist on 3T quality. And the fact is we charge less than most providers in Delaware. We have a several cases of coccydynia which shows enhancement and inflammation on a contrast enhanced fat sat image. Usually on MRI we see nothing in such cases. Because of the detail and sensitivity to enhancement we finally can actually see positive findings in these patients. We have have a enhancing nuchal ligament tendinitis case and subtle shoulder tendinitis picked up by indirect arthrography. The shoulder arthrograms are astounding. We can see the cartilage surfaces in the shoulder because of our higher resolution and thinner sections. The key to seeing more at 3T is using contrast and fat sat and contiguous 2mm thick sections. This combination is very hard to do at 1.5T and easy to do at 3T.
For our abdomen studies we ALWAYS do a diffusion weighted image. This finds pancreatic cancer without contrast injection. Most gastroenterologists do not even know this fact. If you have an MRI of the abdomen and it does not use DWI imaging you are missing about 30-50% of cases of pancreatic cancer. This advanced technology works in the brain and also in the liver to find lesions which would otherwise be invisible. And now withour 32 channel brain coil we can use it to find microscopic changes in fiber tracts in the brain. At a conference in Philadelphia I learned that at Yale and Wake Forest University they also do DWI images on all their liver MRI patients. We have been doing this for two and half years. No one else in Delaware does this. You have no idea what you are missing until you scan with the latest software and MRI knowledge. Obviously some of the other providers feel they can give you less service and you will not care. I hope that the intelligent patient looks on the internet and sees what is available. ALL MRI scanners are not equal. Our scanners are the same as the ones installed at University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Johns Hopkins. Yale has announced they are buying three 3T Verio scanners. We also just purchased a 32 channel 3T OPEN BORE Achieva for Delaware. It is wide and short. It has one of the shortest bores and is less claustrophobic than most closed scanners. But if you are claustrophobic we offer FREE IV sedation. We have opened our Lewes office in Five Points shopping center. Just this week a patient came and wanted 3T quality. He was claustriophobic so we gave him IV valium sedation and he did not even remember the scan. He proclaimed this was the BEST MRI he had ever had.
Breast MRI is superior at 3T field strengths. www.3tbreastmri.com A recent study said MRI of the breast was 100% sensitive for cancer. It was published in April 2009. We are ahead of the curve and have done only 3T MRI of the breast preferentially since 2007. We are here to bring you the best technology. We also have breast coils on all of our MRUI magnets. This lets us provide the proper exams for all patients. We don't pick and choosse and tell you where you have to go. Other providers in this area only get one coil for one magnet and try to tell you you have to go to one place or another for your scan. We do Breat MRI scans only at our New Castle office. We can only do them on NON MEDICARE patients. At this time.
MR angiography is particularly improved at 3T. The highest quality MR angiography is possible at 3T. We scan with double the resolution of other scanners and can make an equivocal case on other scanners either positive or negative. We can be definitive.
MR cholangiography is also improved at 3T. We can see smaller branches and strictures using the power of 3T. Diffusion weighted imaging is also improved at 3T and makes pacnreatic cancers stand out. 3T diffusion weighted imaging is also good for imaging of prostate cancer. Rectal cancer imaging is also improved at 3T. You can see the wall of the colon and invasion of the perirectal fat due to the increased resolution of 3T imaging. You can do a web search on this. It was published by physicians from Scotland in 2007. However most colo rectal surgeons are unaware of this advanced work. We can do this everyday on our 3T scanners.
Fetal MRI is usually done at 1.5T, but 3T offers us the capability of scanning faster or with higher resolution. It is possible this may aid us in the future in fetal MRI.
Functional MRI studies can be done at 3T and are much more statistically sound than the same studies done at 1.5T. The extra signal to noise helps us especially for functional MRI.
Please feel free to call us with any questions about your MRI study.
(302)295-3367 our BEST OPEN MRI is 302-472-BEST (2378) Our MIR facility in Lewes is reachable by calling 302-827-4251. Ask for Timothy Linwood our office manager.
Visit www.mriconsultants.net to review our companion website: and also visit www.3tbreastmri.com and www.bestopenmri.net and www.lewemr.com
Our 32 channel head coil makes the brain images from our Lewes site - one of the best sites in the world to get MR brain imaging. Do a web search on 32 channel 3T brain imaging and you will find that only the finest neurological institutes have such a surface coil. The coil costs about 100000 dollars and we spent that to provide the best care for you. We do not charge any more for this high quality. Our out of pocket cost is suprisingly low. Call us and you will find that in Sussex Couty we are hundred of dollars cheaper than all of our competitors who have older and inferior scanners. Ours went LIVE on Jan 17th 2012 and is a 32 channel Philips Achieva 3T scanner.
SNR or signal to noise ratio is the yardstick by which one can compare images from one machine to another. 3T MRI has at least twice the signal to noise of lower field scanners. This means to make an image of the same signal to noise you have to scan four times as long.