DUBAI - On Monday at Arab Health, GE Healthcare took the green silk wraps off its PET/MRI scanner, a work-in-progress being displayed for the time in the Middle East.
The scanner was introduced by Richard Hausmann, president and CEO for MRI at GE Healthcare, who noted that the machine represents a major breakthrough in oncology. GE also discussed its investigational work in PET/MRI at the RSNA 2013 meeting.
Richard Hausmann, president and CEO for MRI, introduced the new work-in-progress scanner at Arab Health 2014.The vendor is promoting the scanner as an integrated PET/MRI system. Development machines are already based in Zurich; the University of California, San Francisco; and Stanford University. The hope is to have a first installation in the Middle East within the next two years, according to Tom Gentile, president and CEO of GE Healthcare.
The new system successfully combines mature, robust technologies with new breakthroughs, and represents an excellent investment for researchers and multispecialty hospitals, he added.
