SIGNA™ Architect – 70cm - Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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SIGNA™ Architect

fueled by SIGNA™Works

Make the unimaginable the expected

UnleashClear advances with clear advantages

Now the potential for MR is even more astonishing with the SIGNA™ Architect, GE's most advanced and intuitive engineering in MR technology to date. Fueled by the SIGNA™Works productivity platform, the SIGNA™ Architect is a harmonious design of form and function.

Welcome to the future of MR. Forge ahead with SIGNA™ Architect.

SIGNA^TMWorks

The new standard is extraordinary

Our new SIGNA™Works productivity platform redefines productivity.
SIGNA™Works is the fuel that drives your imaging to the next level and beyond. SIGNA™Works standard applications come pre-loaded with SIGNA™ Architect as a fully integrated solution. It's value-added technology that's upgradable and can be customized with additional applications to suit the needs of your growing practice.

Energize

Phenomenal exams to meet your clinical needs

The SIGNA™Works standard applications portfolio contains imaging solutions that cover a wide variety of contrasts, 2D and 3D volumetric data, including motion correction capabilities. SIGNA™Works provides all of the tools you need to complete a clinical exam.

NeuroWorks

This one-stop solution enables you to image brain, spine, vascular and peripheral nerve anatomy with exceptional tissue contrast. Includes ReadyBrain for single-click auto alignment, enabling patient planning through post processing.
OrthoWorks

This extensive library of musculoskeletal imaging techniques enables you to image bone, joint and soft tissue with remarkable tissue contrast.
BodyWorks

Addresses one of the fastest growing areas in MR. This all-inclusive library allows you to image abdominal and pelvic anatomy with user flexibility to adapt to different patient types.
OncoWorks

Delivers techniques to capture anatomical and morphological data to uniquely enable oncological assessment. OncoWorks includes robust tissue contrast, motion-insensitive, high temporal and spatial resolution imaging.
CVWorks

Access morphology, flow, function and tissue viability plus gain crucial insights into vascular structure and flow dynamics. Plus, you have the flexibility to adapt to different patient types with exams that vastly simplify workflow.
PaedWorks

Pediatric imaging requires exclusive and distinctive imaging techniques that provide ease of use for the user and clinical excellence for your smallest, most fragile patients.

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Broaden your areas of expertise

Take your expertise to the next level when you move beyond the standard with SIGNA™Works innovative applications. Improved image quality, higher efficiency and a more streamlined workflow help you perform better than ever before.

HyperWorks

HyperWorks means hyper scanning with astonishing imaging and unsurpassed speed, delivering up to 8x faster results.
ViosWorks

ViosWorks reduces the complexity and cost of cardiac imaging. For the first time, all 7 dimensions of information can be captured in a cardiovascular scan in 10 minutes or less.
SilentWorks

SilentWorks is GE’s most advanced noise-reducing technology. Traditional exams can be extremely loud. SilentWorks brings the sound level down to ambient noise.
ImageWorks

ImageWorks boosts your overall MR performance. READYView visualization and MAGiC one-and-done scanning help ensure consistent and clear results.

Energize
- NeuroWorks
- OrthoWorks
- BodyWorks
- OncoWorks
- CVWorks
- PaedWorks
Expand
- HyperWorks
- ImageWorks
- SilentWorks
- ViosWorks

Cube DIR
1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4mm
T2 PROPELLER MB Coronal (Inverted)
.6 x .6 x 3mm

NeuroWorks

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NeuroWorks

This one-stop solution enables you to imagine brain, spine, vascular and peripheral nerve anatomy with exceptional tissue contrast. These motion-insensitive techniques feature single-click auto alignment, providing the complete neuro solution from scanning to post processing.

NeuroWorks also includes Cube, our 3D volumetric imaging suite, standard with every system. This application allows you to suppress CSF and either white or gray matter to increase lesion conspicuity.

PROPELLER MB, our latest PROPELLER enhancement, is a multi-shot approach that preserves tissue contrast regardless of weighting while also reducing motion artifacts. Additionally, this new technique introduces new contrasts such as T1 FSE.

PD FatSat Cube Sagittal
.6 x .6 x 1.2mm
PD Coronal
.2 x .3 x 2.5mm

OrthoWorks

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OrthoWorks

This extensive library of musculoskeletal imaging techniques enables you to image bone, joint and soft tissue with remarkable tissue contrast.

OrthoWorks also includes 3D volumetric Cube with proton-density, combined with ASPIR, which enables improved fat suppression uniformity, which is routinely done as three separate 2D scans. With one 3D acquistion and multi planar reformats, Cubes may replace individual 2D scans.

3D MRCP
1.4 x 1.4 x 1.2mm

Navigated Turbo LAVA Free Breathing Dynamic Liver
1.9 x 2 x 4mm
:20sec/phase

BodyWorks

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BodyWorks

With BodyWorks, we address one of the fastest growing areas in MR. This all-inclusive library allows you to image abdominal and pelvic anatomy with user flexibility to adapt to different patient types.

PB Navigators are GE's solution to combat respiratory motion in abdominal imaging. This free-breathing approach is compatible with multiple pulse sequences including diffusion, PROPELLER MB, MRCP and dynamic T1 imaging.

FSPGR Ax Dynamic
1 x 1 x 1.5mm
T2 PROPELLER Coronal
.8 x .8 x 3mm

OncoWorks

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OncoWorks

This extensive library of techniques captures anatomic and morphologic data to uniquely enable oncological assessment of anatomy. OncoWorks includes robust tissue contrast, motion-insensitive, high temporal and spatial resolution imaging.

3D volumetric imaging with an optimized adiabatic fat suppression, combined with ARC or ASSET, provides high spatial and temporal resolution to capture contrast uptake patterns. The FSPGR Ax Dynamic image shows lesion characteristics generated using AW VS7's positive enhancement map. The T2 PROPELLER image demonstrates small FOV and motion-correction through the prostate.

2D Cine FIESTA
Black Blood - SSFSE
PS MDE
QuickStep MRA

CVWorks

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CVWorks

With our intuitive cardiac techniques, you can assess morphology, flow, function and tissue viability plus gain crucial insights into vascular structure and flow dynamics. CVWorks provides the flexibility to adapt to different patient types with exams that vastly simplify workflow.

With CVWorks, multi breath-hold imaging can be a thing of the past. Our latest Single shot MDE and Black Blood techniques provide patient-friendly alternatives to uncomfortable breath-holds.

With our workflow-simplified QuickStep protocols, scanning whole body vasculature can be done in less than 6 minutes. High performance gradients allow bright blood pool and myocardial tissue contrast on Cine FIESTA while preserving spatial resolution.

Navigated Turbo LAVA
Free Breathing Dynamic Liver
1.2x1.7x2.6mm
: 25 sec/phase
T2 frFSE Sagittal

PaedWorks

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PaedWorks

PaedWorks provides specilized protocols to simply address the needs of your smallest, most fragile patients. Techniques such as PB Navigators combined with PROPELLER MB are used with advanced techniques like diffusing imaging, allowing for patient-friendly, entirely free-breathing exams. Additionally, cardiac exams using single shot MDE provide faster, more reliable results.

The four images demonstrate dynamic T1 imaging with PB Navigator, which enables the patient to breathe freely while capturing contrast in fast temporal phases. Whole spine evaluation can be obtained simply with routine T2 frFSE imaging.

HyperCube with Flex
HyperCube Axial
HyperBand FA Map
HyperBand DTI
HyperSense Knee Cube .4 x. 4 x 4mm
T2 Cube Two Section Spine Axial and Coronal MPR's
3D MRCP 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2mm
3D TOF .4 x .4 x 4mm

HyperWorks

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HyperWorks

HyperCube

HyperCube expands the capabilities of 3D imaging, allowing you to significantly reduce scan times and eliminate artifacts such as motion and aliasing by reducing the phase field of view without the presence of aliasing artifacts.

HyperBand

HyperBand takes your diffusion to a new level by allowing you to acquire more slices or diffusion directions within a typical scan.

HyperSense

With HyperSense, we can obtain images with significantly fewer samples, thereby reducing all the overall scan time without compromising spatial resolution or image quality. HyperSense is not dependent on coil geometry and is less sensitive to image artifacts or SNR loss at higher accelerations when compared to conventional parallel imaging techniques.

HyperSense is 510(k) pending with the FDA. Not available for sale in the United States and may not be commercially available in other regions.

MAGiC
DIR, FLAIR, PSIR (top) ,T2, T1 and T2 maps (bottom)
were acquired in one scan
READYView
cmr⁴²
NeuroQuant

ImageWorks

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ImageWorks

MAGiC

The secret of MAGiC lies in its unique ability to make possible multiple image contrasts in a single scan. MAGiC delivers enhanced clinical flexibility by freeing up time for advanced imaging. MAGiC goes beyond the routine, providing complementary parametric data for a more complete picture. Image contrast can be changed by applying simple adjustments after acquisition.

READYView

With READYView being directly available on the MR Operator console, it accelerates workflow and reading readiness by eliminating time consuming post processing steps.

cmr⁴²

cmr⁴² is a comprehensive cardiovascular post processing solution that uses automated algorithms to assess tissue charaterization, mapping, flow and function.

NeuroQuant

NeuroQuant automatically segments and measures volumes of brain structures and compares these volumes to norms. This information helps make a diagnosis and follow the progression of a disease. NeuroQuant can provide reports for a variety of clinical impressions, including Age Related Atrophy, Hippocampal Volume Asymmetry, Multi-Structure Atrophy, Triage Brain Atrophy, Brain Development and General Morphometry.

SilentScan
ZTE Silent MRA
DWI with
SilentScan
3D T1 Sagittal SilentScan
with Axial and Coronal MPR's
T2 PROPELLER FatSat
Coronal with SilentScan

SilentWorks

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SilentWorks

SilentWorks is available across all anatomies and can be done with multiple weightings and coils, including DWI. Zero TE techniques enable imaging in vasculature structures with less artifacts that are commonly seen on traditional scans. And with new enhancements like 3D Silenz and PROPELLER MB, your exam time is shortened without compromise.

ViosWorks

ViosWorks

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ViosWorks

VisoWorks, powered by Arterys^TM, provides detailed quantitative flow and regurgutant measurements, stroke volume, thickness, mass and ejection fractions can be obtained with precise and non-invasive solution.

Elevate
Raise your MR performance to new heights with groundbreaking technology

Designed to overcome barriers, SIGNA^TM Architect's cutting edge platform makes it the most versatile, adaptable and powerful system available from GE. Now feet-first, whole-body coverage is made easy. Dynamic yet insightful, the SIGNA^TM Architect is MR built to work for you.

Total Digital Imaging (TDI)

The SIGNA^TM Architect offers startling
advances in imaging and a total imaging win with TDI.

GE's Direct Digital Interface (DDI) employs an independent analog-to-digital converter to digitize inputs from each of 128 RF channels, eliminating unnecessary noise enhancement.
Digital Micro Switching (DMS) technology represents a revolutionary advance in RF coil design by replacing analog blocking circuits with intelligent Micro Electro-Mechanical Switches (MEMS).
The SIGNA^TM Architect comes prepared for Digital Surround Technology (DST). DST combines signals from every coil element. The exceptional SNR and sensitivity of the high-density surface coils are combined with the superior homogeneity and deeper signal penetration of the integrated RF body coil.

TDI 48 Channel Head Coil
and Coil Suite

Introduced with the SIGNA^TM Architect, the optional TDI 48 Channel Head Coil delivers phenomenal performance for every patient, with a fit-adaptable design that addresses 99.99% of the population while preserving the highest SNR and supporting advanced imaging capabilities such as HyperWorks technologies.

eXpress Dockable Table

The SIGNA^TM Architect's eXpress table, with a memory foam surface, delivers feet-first or head-first imaging for everyone. With its detachable egress, you never have to worry about how quickly you can exit the MR suite. And with IntelliTouch positioning, just touch the edge of the table to position your patients.

FOV

In addition to accommodating larger patients, full 50x50x50cm FOV in a 70cm wide bore allows you to properly image off-center anatomy such as shoulders and hips. The SIGNA^TM Architect's phenomenal homogeneity enables our largest FOV ever.

reFINE and deFINE

With reFINE, the challenge of 3.0T high-yield uniformity has finally met its match. reFINE allows you to increase your control over improved RF pulse efficiency, so you get clearer, crisper signals no matter your patient composition or position.

deFINE takes the results of SIGNA^TM Architect to the next level by enhancing the image appearance with integrated inline optimizable settings. These settings can be generated for each individual sequence or for the entire exam.

UnleashClear advances with clear advantages

SIGNATMWorks

Energize

Expand

NeuroWorks

NeuroWorks

OrthoWorks

OrthoWorks

BodyWorks

BodyWorks

OncoWorks

OncoWorks

CVWorks

CVWorks

PaedWorks

PaedWorks

HyperWorks

HyperWorks

HyperCube

HyperBand

HyperSense

ImageWorks

ImageWorks

MAGiC

READYView

cmr42

NeuroQuant

SilentWorks

SilentWorks

ViosWorks

ViosWorks

Elevate Raise your MR performance to new heights with groundbreaking technology

Total Digital Imaging (TDI)

TDI 48 Channel Head Coil and Coil Suite

eXpress Dockable Table

FOV

reFINE and deFINE

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