Philips Partners with SimonMed Imaging to Revolutionize MRI Scanning

MedTech Outlook | Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The purposeful partnership of Philips and SimonMed Imaging is sure to make MRI scanners highly advanced and intelligent.

FREMONT, CA: Philips has partnered with SimonMed Imaging with a mission to deliver more optimized MRI technology to the medical industry. This partnership would enable the rolling out of the novel and innovative state of the art MRI scanners. Philips aims to release MRI scanners that can diagnose easier and more accurately at a faster pace into the market. Through this partnership, Philipsseeks tobring its proprietary 3T MRI technology to the table all across the U.S. 

The partnership would enable Philips advanced MRI scanners to be available in SimonMed centers in California, Arizona, Illinois, and Colorado. SimonMedis the largest company in the U.S., that provides outpatient radiology and MRI services. The new MRI scanners would be more and more futuristic by supporting an increased image quality as well as performance value that is atleast 50 percent faster than its previous versions. The enhanced MRI scanners by Philips are capable of examining diseases such as brain trauma easily. 

Philip’s new imaging technology reduces or eliminates the number of rescans to be made. This implies that the new MRI scanners increase support and realize fidelity. The new scanners also have reduced acoustic noise by around 80 percent, added voice guidance, and a comfortable table positioning feature to increase comfort for patients in every way. The collaboration of the two companies would further improve the patient outcomes and experience, speed up diagnostics, and reduces costs as well. In the future, Philips would be focused on pushing the bars of its routine 3T MRI imaging.