Hours of operation:

Monday 8AM - 5PM

Tuesday 8AM - 5PM

Wednesday 10:30 AM -6:00 PM

Thursday 8AM - 5PM

Friday 8AM - 4PM

On Thursdays in the thought of promoting physician discussion and cooperation we want to have a afternoon wine and cheese gathering each week   from 2:30 - 4 PM to showcase our office which is the finest MRI facility in Delaware.  It combines the strongest magnet - a 3 tesla Trio system from Siemens and also the least claustrophobic magnet - the widest in the world at 1.5T - the Siemens Espree.  Our Espree also has the only 52" hi def TV which the patient can watch about 60% of the time because our Espree magnet lets the patient's head be outside the magnet most of the time (60%).  We want to have interested medical professionals bring their interesting cases to discuss at our offices in the Abby Medical Center at the junction of Rt4 and Rt7 in Newark DE.  We practice an academic form of radiology and try to learn as well as teach new concepts and techniques.  We encourage physicians to come and ask questions.

From my discussions the other day - we really do need to improve physician education about quality MRI.  It is astonishing the lack of knowledge about these new techniques.  On a site visit to Hopkins the other day with other radiologists they were literally astounded by the new images that a Siemens 3T scanner could produce.  That radiology facility decided to buy three 3T MRI units on that visit.

For instance our MRI system is the only one capable of doing coronary angiography in larger patients because of our 70 cm bore.  It is the same magnet preferred by Dr. Andew Arai at the National Institutes of Health.  It also has the complete Siemens cardiac package allowing us to do cardiac MRI.  No other facility has this capability in Delaware.

BLADE is the new face of MRI.  Without BLADE you are imaging with one hand tied behind your back!  It is motion corrected blades - and each image is snapped indivually rather than the fourier reconstruction done in every other scanner.  And Siemens technology allows this to be used all over the body.  It makes shoulder, chest, liver, pelvis imaging sharper and better and allows us to detect smaller abnoarmalities.  Recent studies published in radiology journals confirm this.  BLADE is simply better.

Breathold imaging with HASTE is also relatively new.  As long as you are cooperative enough to hold your breath we get sharper and better images of your liver and chest.  In a recent case breathold HASTE at 1.5T (non contrast) bested two consecutive CT studies with contrast in a patient.  We found 4 liver lesions as opposed to 1.  This makes a huge difference because MR contrast is better than CT contrast.  So... in a patient the other day we picked up 4 lesions as opposed to only one on two prior CT scans.  CT is not as good as your doctor thinks it is.  His physicians were suprised to find the three other lesions totally missed by CT.  This is not unusual. 

1 Centurian Drive ste 107 Newark DE 19713

302-472 BEST

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302-295-3367

302-838-7800

302-342-2MRI

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