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Hours of operation: NEW CASTLE - Newark office 302-295-3367

Monday 8AM - 5PM

Tuesday 8AM - 5PM

Wednesday 10:30 AM -6:00 PM

Thursday 8AM - 5PM

Friday 8AM - 4PM

Lewes MR office:  302-827-5251

Mon - closed

Tues 1 PM to 6PM

Wed 8 AM to 6 PM

Thursday 8Am to 12 PM

Friday closed

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.  In one patient a nurse - we found literally 100 lesions which were completely missed by CT and ultrasound.  About 5 lesions were quite large.  The reaminang 95 lesions were so called hammartomas which are usually only detected by good MRI imaging.  In the past 25 years these new scanners which have HASTE and REVEAL have only been available for the past 3-4 years.  If the MRI scanner is older than 4 years it may already be outdated.

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