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  • Date: Aug 17, 2022 5:51:42 PM

Silenz

Scanner noise is one of the top three patient complaints for an MRI scan, along with claustrophobia and loss of control. Silenz is a neurological data acquisition and reconstruction technique designed to significantly reduce the acoustic noise generated during an MR examination. Silenz generates:

  • 3D MRI data sets with T1-weighted
  • T2-weighted
  • PD-weighted image contrast
  • Diffusion-weighted
  • FLAIR
  • MR angiography contrast with Silenz MRA.
Figure 1. Comparison images acquired on Optima MR450w: BRAVO (left) and Silenz (right) images

The 3D data sets acquire isotropic voxels that can be reformatted into any desired scan plane.

Figure 2. Acquired Silenz sagittal image in upper left and reformatted sagittal, axial and coronal images