The area's first Open Bore MRI system was delivered to New Milford Hospital on Wednesday. The 1.5-tesla unit has a larger opening, or bore, that is ideal for claustrophobic and larger patients. It is ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exams – non-invasive diagnostic imaging exams of soft tissue, bone and muscles – have become one of the fastest growing types of medical diagnostic tests in the United ...

The tables were turned on a machine that often makes people claustrophobic when there were only about 2 or 3 inches to spare on each side as an Open Bore MRI machine slid through an opening in the new ...

Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is the first in Houston to debut a new wide-bore Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) suite that offers an enhanced patient self-selection experience unlike ...

ASPEN ” Aspen Valley Hospital officials say their new “Open Bore, 1.5 Tesla, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system” has a larger bore to better accommodate patients who have felt claustrophobic, or ...

Toshiba Corporation and Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation have developed a technology for displaying expansive virtual reality images inside the bore of MRI systems. High reality images are ...

New equipment offers relief for patients who fear tight spaces or are too large to fit into a normal MRI scanning machine. Thirteen years ago, a car wreck forced Roger Judd to get an MRI scan of his ...

Dolores Rovai can get a little claustrophobic, so she usually goes to San Francisco for an MRI scan. That’s where the Healdsburg resident can find state-of-the-art MRI devices with “tunnels” that are ...

Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is the first in Houston to debut a new wide-bore Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) suite that offers an enhanced patient self-selection experience unlike ...