Founder & Chief Radiologist AXIS - Animal Cross-Sectional Imaging Specialists Venice, Florida, United States
Presentation Description / Summary: Simplifying MRI equipment specifications with consideration given to cost benefits for different practices. This will include an evaluation of the different hardware components of various MRI systems commonly used in veterinary MRI. The session will delve into the nuances of MRI field strengths, including clinically applicable comparisons between low- versus high-fields types. However, this session will also focus on hardware components that are frequently overlooked as critical to imaging veterinary patients, such as coil configurations and adapting human MRI units for veterinary use. The cost-benefit of the different hardware configurations associated with low field, 1.5T, and 3.0T units will be included to aid in informed decision-making.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will a broad baseline knowledge the MRI systems available for veterinary practices, and by extension the hardware components most important and/or beneficial to their practice.
Attendees will understand MRI system purchase beyond the MR field strength consideration, which erroneously is often the only consideration.
Attendees will see the cost-benefit of the components of MRI systems through examples from real-life MRI veterinary purchases.
