Ridgeway Open MRI Centre

Open MRI

Open MRI
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive method of acquiring diagnostic images of the human body. MRI provides computer-generated images of the body's internal tissues and organs.

Open MRI scanners have been developed for people who are anxious or obese or for examination of small parts of the body, such as the extremities (knee, shoulder). The basic technology of an open MRI machine is similar to that of a closed bore MRI. The major difference for the patient is that instead of lying in a narrow tunnel, the imaging table has more space around the body so that the magnet does not completely surround the person being tested.

Examples given here are of both our high field scanner at Harley Street and typical low field scanners at some of our other sites listed.

Available at the Medtel Harley Street Medical Centre. The latest Open Magnet from Philips works at 1.0 Tesla and can image all the things that a 1.5 Tesla closed magnet can image in almost the same time.

The Philips Panorama Open Magnet MR scanner is the world's only high-field open MR system which means that it has an extra wide aperture that makes scanning larger patients as well as frail, anxious, elderly and claustrophobic patients a simple and easy procedure.