But still our referring physicians wanted something quicker, a spine screen, to serve as a baseline pre or post treatment, a rapid survey of the entire spine.  We developed ASSIST DE.  It takes just 42 seconds. As seen below.  For more details on this technique see the AJNR publication.

The Investigational Image Processing Lab seeks to develop and test novel MRI techniques to achieve optimal image acquisition, image display and standardization. The lab serves our referring physicians with personalized image prescriptions for their patient population. 

In partnership with GE Healthcare, we test and refine MR pulse sequences not yet commerically available. The images collected here represent a physician's inquiry. 

For example, oncologists and other physicians want to know if a radiologist sees a lesion at one level of the spine how do we know if there are more lesions at another level? 

To fully answer this question, the physician would have the patient return for a complete spine MRI (C-T-L), which is  very costly and  time consuming for the patient.  We developed IDEAL ASSIST technology to image entire spine in about half the time.  Read more about this <IDEAL ASSIST PDF>