UK-headquartered Metrasens says its latest advance in MRI safety – ‘the world’s first ferromagnetic detection systems’ (FMDs) – ‘effectively combine maximum MRI safety with optimal workflow efficiency’.
The company said: “MRI is an extremely valuable, safe, medical imaging modality. Great care is needed, however, to protect patients, staff, and the hospital’s imaging technology investment, because the MRI field is always on. Ferromagnetic items inadvertently taken into the MRI room can become projectiles, pulled at up to 40 mph into the magnet, and putting at risk anyone, or anything, in their path. Although every MRI facility has processes to reduce the risks, unfortunately the number of projectile incidents and nearmisses continues to increase.” Metrasens’s Ferroguard Assure safety system detects risk items ‘well before they reach the MRI doorway’, while Ferroguard Screener ‘detects the smallest ferrous items’ (e.g. hair-pins) on patients, ‘reducing image artefacts, time-wasting rescans, and resulting reductions in efficiency’.
