FDA Clears Hitachi’s New MRI System
November 15, 2007
Hitachi Medical Systems America announced that it received FDA clearance to market its Oasis magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that reportedly features vertical field magnet technology inclusive of high magnet homogeneity and higher order active shim, in an open architecture magnet design.
The system contains a magnetic field strength of 1.2 Tesla, a high performance gradient system coupled with an eight-channel Radio Frequency (RF) system and Hitachi-designed RF coils.