Toshiba provides contrast-free MR system to Illinois hospital

Nonprofit Catholic community hospital, Little Company of Mary, has installed the Vantage Atlas MR system from diagnostic imaging systems provider Toshiba America Medical Systems.

The Evergreen Park, Ill.-based hospital chose the Vantage Atlas in order to provide safe MRA procedures to its patients. The Vantage MR product line is a full suite of contrast-free MRA techniques, including fresh blood imaging (FBI), contrast-free improved angiography (CIA), time-spatial labeling inversion pulse (time-SLIP) and time and space angiography (TSA), said the Tustin, Calif.-based company.

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