GE Healthcare’s MAGiC, which stands for magnetic resonance image compilation, has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA. Providing the industry’s first multi-contrast MR technique, the system provides clinicians with more data than conventional scanning in a much shorter period of time. Users can manipulate MR images retrospectively, and that can lead to substantial time-savings, a reduction in rescans, and an increase in cost savings.
MAGiC (Magnetic Resonance Image Compilation) is the industry’s first multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) technique now cleared with the
U.S. FDA. The technique gives clinicians more data than conventional scanning in a fraction of the time*. MAGiC gives users the flexibility to manipulate the images retrospectively leading to significant timesaving, fewer rescans and therefore cost savings, which combined,can assist the clinician in making a more decisive diagnosis.
GE Healthcare has conducted a blinded, mulit-center, multi-reader clinical study that compares MAGiC to conventional MRI. Clinicians from
six different sites compared the two methods and verified that the image quality of MAGiC was comparable to conventional images at a fraction of
the scan time.
With MAGiC, clinicians one can modify image contrast after scans have been completed, a benefit that’s not possible with conventional imaging. Additionally, the system allows radiologists to view multiple different contrasts acquired from a single scan.
“MAGiC simultaneously provides a new level of protocol efficiency and tissue characterization,” says Howard Rowley, MD, professor of radiology, neurology, and neurosurgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and president of the American Society of Neuroradiology. “The flexibility to post-process a wide variety of key image families with different tissue contrasts from a single acquisition is groundbreaking. This will be a major advance for fast brain protocols and patient comfort due to the reduced scan time.
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