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MAGNETOM ESSENZAEstablished 1.5T performance. With Tim+Dot.

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Leading in efficiency

You are aiming for more accurate diagnoses, to accommodate more patients in less time. Your investments need to pay off quickly and operating costs need to be kept down. To help overcome these challenges and raise quality and productivity in healthcare, you can benefit from the most efficient and user-friendly MRI solutions available, without making any compromise in delivering premium patient care.

You are an MRI leader.

Whether you are just beginning to work with MRI or are at the forefront of research. With Siemens MAGNETOM MRI systems, you can be sure to lead. In your clinical field, your research, your business environment – to achieve our joint mission of advancing human health.

Leading. With MAGNETOM.

Up to 60 cases per day. With MAGNETOM.

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Built with the experience of more than 1,200 customers in the field, MAGNETOM ESSENZA, now with Tim+Dot, will enable you to be even more productive, more versatile, and more confident in your daily MRI practice.

How?

•Bybringing Dot® (Day optimizing throughput) together with Tim® (Total Imaging Matrix), boosting image quality and consistency while helping take the complexity out of MRI.

•Bybeingequippedwiththe latest application platform, providing more standard and advanced applications than ever before.

•Throughreassuring investment and operating costs, defining a faster return on investment and sustainable value.

MAGNETOM ESSENZA. Established 1.5T performance. With Tim+Dot.

Because there's no need to reposition the coils, we can achieve 50-60 patients every day.2

Dr. Li Song Bai Director of MRI department 1st Hospital of CMUShenyang, China

“ ”1Up to 60 cases per day.

With MAGNETOM.

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1Up to 60 cases per day. With MAGNETOM.


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Designed for steady performance, MAGNETOM ESSENZA fully answers your needs in daily MRI practice – with Dot engines to increase your productivity and latest applications to broaden your clinical scope.



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More productivity. With Tim+Dot.

• Excellent workflow with Tim [25x8] and the unique integrated IsoCenter Matrix

• Consistently high quality exams – personalized, guided, automated – with Dot

• Powerful imaging performance with an outstanding coil portfolio

More applications. From head to toe.

• Comprehensive Tim Application Suite for routine and advanced 2D/3D imaging

• Advanced applications like CAIPIRINHA, syngo BLADE, Inline Diffusion – now standard

• Beyond standard – one step ahead for more advanced applications like syngo RESOLVE

More confidence. Through sustainable value.

• Access to new innovations with our latest syngo software platform• Improved ease of use and workflow with Tim+Dot – enabling higher

patient throughput • Lowest operation cost in class1 with state-of-the-art zero helium

boil-off technology• Excellent performance and reliability – confirmed by more than

1,200 installed systems• Reassuringly low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and a faster

break-even


Tim+Dot are the direct response to today’s demanding world of healthcare economics.

Tim is Siemens’ integrated coil technology unlocks imaging power like never before.

Dot engines help take the complexity out of MRI, at the same time enable consistency and repro-ducibility.

Together, they redefine productivity – with an increase of up to 50%.

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Tim + Dot

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Tim integrated coil technology changed MRI forever. With excellent image quality and fast acquisition speed, the proven technology is now in nearly 8,000 installations. Whole-body coverage means no repositioning for multiples exams and more exams per day.

Your benefits: • Exceptionalimagequality•Fasteracquisition,inshorterexamtime•HigherSNR

Tim sets the standard in MRI. Dot. The next movement in MRI.

Dot is a new way of scanning in MRI – a better way. Dot scanning uses a suite of customizable engines – allowing the user to personalize exams according to patient needs, build in step-by-step user guidance, and automate MRI exams – either “out of the box” or based on the institution’s standards.

Your benefits:•Increasedconsistencyandreproducibility•Greatereaseofuse•Higherproductivity

Personalized

• Uniquely tailored, optimized exam strategies• Adapt scanning to the patient condition or

clinical question• Customize Dot strategies to your standards of care

Guided

• Real-time on-board guidance with images and text through even complicated exams

• Adapt scanning to your protocols for increased standardization with integrated decision points

• Add your own instructions including image examples for consistent positioning and scanning

Automated

• Consistent and reproducible scanning with features like AutoAlign, AutoBolus Detection

• Intelligent workflows customizable to your standards enable effortless set-up

• Optimized timing of scanning and breathing

Flexibility

• Select exams, not coils• 8 RF channels for up to 25 matrix coil elements • Head-to-toe imaging without patient repositioning

Accuracy

• Local and whole-body imaging, while maintaining a high SNR

• Excellent image quality with high coil density• Seamlessly scan up to 140 cm with excellent

image quality

Speed

• Utilize parallel imaging (iPAT) in all directions• High acquisition speed, high resolution• Shorter examination times allow increased

throughput

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Excellent image quality and workflow with Tim [25x8]

• Flexible combination of up to 4 Matrix coils

• Up to 25 matrix coil elements seam-lessly combined

• Excellent coverage allows exams like whole CNS, whole Abdomen or peripheral MRA without repositioning

Great patient comfort on a total scan range of up to 140 cm

• Unique integrated IsoCenter Matrix Coil always ready to scan

• Short system design with 147cm length, from cover to cover

• Comfortable patient table for patient weight of up to 200 kg/440 lbs and with lowest height of 55 cm

Tim technology has made fast, flexible, and accurate scans the standard in MRI. MAGNETOM ESSENZA pro-vides access to this market-leading technology, bringing excellent productivity to your daily clinical work.


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Excellent flexibility and highly versatile use withtheFlexcoil

• Two different sizes that fit different body regions like wrist, elbow, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle

• Wrap-around, flexible coil design• 4-channel design for high SNR and great iPAT

imaging performance

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Outstanding image quality and speed with the 10-element Head/Neck coil

• 10-element design for excellent SNR and iPAT in any direction

• Large aperture opening and detachable double mirror

• Flexible usability, e.g. with lower part only for claustrophobic patients

• Highly combinable with additional coils like the Body Matrix or IsoCenter Matrix Coil

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Whether you work with the system pre-sets, or configure Dot to your institution’s standards, the Dot engines multiply the power of Tim. The results: greater image consistency and diagnostic confidence, greater ease of use, and a day that’s more productive than ever before.

Brain Dot EngineThe Brain Dot Engine makes brain exams easier, more reproducible, and more efficient. Personalized exam strategies help to adapt the examination to patient condition or clinical questions. Also when conditions change during the examination.


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Abdomen Dot EngineUp to 28 % better timing accuracy1

• Improved timing accuracy for more reproducible results• Consistent image quality for even complex abdomen

examinations

www.siemens.com/Abdomen-Dot-Engine

Knee Dot EngineKnee examination tailored to the patient

• More consistent image quality• Speed and ease-of-use for 3D workflows• Improved evaluation of soft tissue in proximity of

orthopedic MR-conditional metal implants, due to less susceptibility artifacts with syngo.WARP3

www.siemens.com/Knee-Dot-Engine

Cardiac Dot EngineUp to 50 % increase in patient throughput1

• Consistency in slice positioning for reliable image quality over multiple exams

• Ease-of-use, helping bring cardiac MRI into your clinical routine

www.siemens.com/Cardiac-Dot-Engine

Angio Dot EngineAutomated calculation of contrast agent application

• Interactive contrast timing approach eliminates need for cumbersome calculations

• Increased timing accuracy and image consistency

www.siemens.com/Angio-Dot-Engine

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More applications. From head to toe.

“Dr. Cristiano Rezio MDRadiologist, Administrative DirectorClínica De Diagnostico Por Imagem AvançadoGoiânia – GO, Brazil

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MAGNETOM ESSENZA delivers outstanding image quality from head to toe. The Tim Application Suite comprises the Neuro, Ortho, Body, Angio, Cardiac, Breast, Oncology, and Pediatric4 suite to support the complete range of clinical applications.

The acquisition of MAGNETOM ESSENZA was a great choice, because it surpassed all our expectations, attending the hospital diversified needs.2

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The Tim application suite provides you with advanced, cutting-edge applications like syngo BLADE, CAIPIRINHA, Inline Diffusion and advanced 3D imaging sequences like syngo SPACE and 3D CISS & DESS.

Inline DiffusionAutomatic real-time calculation of trace-weighted images and ADC maps with Inline Technology.

CAIPIRINHAThe powerful next generation iPAT application for up to 50 % faster 3D imaging.1

Conventional 3D VIBE DIXON with GRAPPA, acquired in a 20s breathhold

3D VIBE DIXON with CAIPIRINHA: Only 16s breathhold and higher resolution at the same time

Diffusion b0

syngo BLADERobust, motion-insensitive imaging for excellent imaging results even for non-cooperative patients, can be used in head, shoulder, abdomen, and other body regions.

T2 TSE with severe motion artifacts of an acute stroke patient

T2 TSE BLADE of the same patient

Diffusion b1000 Automatically calculated ADC map

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3D DESST2/T1- weighted, high resolution cartilage imaging.

3D T2 MEDIC of C-Spine 3D T1 VIBE in- & opposed-phase, 72 slices acquired in 22s

3D CISSExcellent visualization of fine structures such as cranial nerve, high resolution imaging of inner ear and spine.

syngo SPACE, Medic, VIBEHigh-end 3D imaging sequences for various contrasts with high through-plane resolution, up to isotropic imaging, provide you the full flexibility to generate any arbitrary angulation after the scan – conveniently for you and your patient.

3D T1 SPACE, sagittal acquisition with 1.0 mm isotropic resolution, shown with reformatting examples in axial, and coronal orientation

3D DESS, knee 3D CISS, Inner ear, cutout

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NeuroExcellent performance and pristine image quality for standard and advanced applications, in 2D or 3D, e.g. sub-mm isotropic resolution with syngo SPACE.

OrthoExamine ligament tears to cartilage degeneration with high-resolution imaging and a wide range of dedicated coils.

OncoProvide state-of-the-art oncology services for tumor detection and staging of prostate, liver cancers, and more.

CardiacEasily answer clinical questions, from cardio-myopathies to ischemic heart disease, and valvular to congenital heart diseases.

AngioEasily depict vessel diseases with contrast and non-contrast enhanced techniques.

BreastStreamline your work-flow in clinical breast cases, including breast implant assessment and therapy monitoring.

Pediatric5

Achieve excellent contrast and resolution with agedependent protocols, using ultra-fast and motion correction techniques.

BodyPerform high-resolution free-breathing abdominal studies like MRCP or fast single-breathhold 3D abdominal scanning with CAIPIRINHA.

Outstanding TCO

• Low installation requirements with short system design

• Lowest operating costs in class with minimal power consumption

• State-of-the-art zero helium boil-off technology


With MAGNETOM ESSENZA value for money meets sustain-ability. Along the complete lifecycle you benefit from the latest technology and system design. Be more efficient and productive than ever before, at a highly attractive total cost of ownership (TCO).

Operating cost comparison with latest competitive systems over a 7-year life-time period (€)1

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The MAGNETOM ESSENZA MR system allows us doing high quality examinations while keeping investment and oper-ating costs under control. ...Today, we have a very good productivity.2

Mr. Geoffrey GatebledChief technician Centre d’Imagerie Médicale de FranconvilleFranconville, France

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The new MAGNETOM ESSENZA stands for increased efficiency from day one. It enables you to keep costs low while increasing your number of patients. A sure combination for a faster break-even.

• Increase your standard workflow setup with Tim and GRAPPA: Comprehensive knee evaluation in less than 10 minutes1

• Optimized workflow and great consistency brings dramatic throughput: e.g., up to 20 % throughput increased1 with Brain Dot Engine

Break-even MAGNETOM ESSENZA

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With MAGNETOM ESSENZA, you will get excellent system performance – and an uninterrupted uptime1. More than 1,200 customers in over 80 countries already rely on MAGNETOM ESSENZA’s robust MRI performance. Every day, whenever they need to.

System reliability1

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

MAGNETOM ESSENZA

Average 4

MAGNETOM SpectraMAGNETOM Skyra MAGNETOM Aera

100%

Benefit from the joint software platform with our latest products.


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MAGNETOM ESSENZA is ready for the future. Based on our latest software platform, it helps you keep the pace with latest MRI trends and developments.

Innovative imaging techniques like CAIPIRINHA are already available today – while MAGNETOM ESSENZA’s latest software platform grants access to even more advanced applications of tomorrow.

With MAGNETOM ESSENZA, you get a highly innovative system that will continue its innovation path. And with syngo Evolve, you are automatically part of it.

Benefit from the joint software platform with our latest products.

ESSENZA is a true “value for money” system combining both strengths of excellence in imaging and viability for investors.2

Dr. B. KannanDirectorAravind Krishna Hospital Sattur, Virudhunagar DistrictTamilnadu, India

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Customer CareCustomer Services

MORE Clinical Expertise Enhanced expertise, greater efficiency, and high productivity thanks to education, consulting services, and personalized training. Our dedicated application specialists will help you to effectively use your systems to ensure a high level of satisfaction for your business and your patients.

syngo Evolve MR Up-to-date, powerful hardware and software are key factors for enhancing the performance and diagnostic quality of your systems. syngo Evolve helps you to keep pace with rapidly developing technological advances troughout the complete life cycle of your system.

Customized Service Agreements DDifferent needs call for individual service agreements. That is why we have structured our technical services in modules and additional options. By selecting the best combination of modules and options, we develop an individualized Performance Plan that ensures an optimal service solution for your situation.

Siemens Remote Service With a Siemens Service contract, you will be connected to the Customer Care Center via Siemens Remote Service (SRS), the efficient and comprehensive infrastructure for the com-plete spectrum of remote support. Many services, updates and even immediate repairs that previously required on-site visits are now performed remotely. Up to 50% of all deviations can be detected via remote connection before interference with your workflow.

Learn more on www.siemens.com/uptime

MAGNETOM World

Our online platform with clinical information, case reports, protocols, application tips, and talks by interna-tional experts is growing every day. Stay informed at:

www.siemens.com/magnetom-world

Redefine your MRI systemRedefine your MRI system with options and upgrades. Keep pace with innovations and keep your system state of the art during its entire product lifecycle. Get your personalized recommendation and discover new coils and clinical software applications. Try them out with a software trial license and experience how you can redefine your system to meet your needs.

www.siemens.com/redefine

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Leading. With MAGNETOM.Leading. With MAGNETOM.


Higher patient comfort due to light-weight coils, ultra-short magnet design, and fast exams

Optimized workflow and increased consistency – with Dot

Excellent life-cycle value from day onethrough low installation and operating costs

Greater clinical scope with head-to-to applications

Diagnostic confidence through remarkable, consistent image quality

MAGNETOM World



Answers for life.

Experience extended 16-Channel productivity with Tim [46x16] and the included 16-Channel Head/Neck coil1

1. Upgraded imaging and iPAT performance

• Twice the number of elements (12 instead of 6) in the head region resulting in improved GRAPPA performance

• Higher performance in abdominal imaging enabled by 16 independent receive channels, in combination with up to 2 Body matrix coils, and the IsoCenter Matrix coil

• Access to the optional 14-ch Extremity coil for advanced iPAT capabilities in any direction and improved B1 performance with iTX (inductively coupled transmit technology)

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3.More confidence

• Significantly higher SNR with the 16-Channel Head/Neck coil

• Complete coverage of the Head/Neck region • Excellent image quality, in combination with the

integrated IsoCenter Matrix coil, for example in C-spine and whole-spine imaging

Higher flexibility

• Seamless com bi nation of up to 4 Matrix coils with up to 46 coil elements

• Even more coverage with the IsoCenter Matrix + 16-Channel Head/Neck coil with two integrated

connectors + up to 2 Body matrix coils• Easier coil handling with combined Head/Neck

parts and comfortable release mechanism• Keep the posterior part of the 16-Channel

Head/Neck on the patient table for any ab do minal exam

More applications. More confidence.More productivity.

Body matrix coil 16-channel Head/Neck coil 14-channel Extremity coil3

1 Instead of 10-element Head/Neck coil2 Data on file; results may vary.3 optional

The new 16-Channel MAGNETOM ESSENZA…

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… in MSK imaging with the optional 14-Channel Extremity coil:

… in Neuro imaging with the 16-ch Head/Neck coil:

Outstanding SNR in the complete field of view. T1 TIRM dark fluid example, acquired with GRAPPA 2

Excellent Speed: T2 TSE, 320 matrix, 20 slices, acquired in 32s

Cutting-edge image quality: T2 TSE example, 512 matrix, 25 slices in 2:19 min

… in abdominal imaging:

Outstanding image quality with iPAT: T2 TSE example with GRAPPA 2

Excellent SNR also for whole Body: T2 TSE Dixon example, acquired in two steps

Or excellent speed: T2 TSE example, 320 matrix, GRAPPA 3, 25 slices in 1:25 min

More applications. More confidence.More productivity.

Answers for life.

More applications.



More productivity. More confidence.

Broaden your scope with more applications ...

T2 weighted image

syngo RESOLVE

Higher resolution and less susceptibility distortions in Diffusion-Weighted Imaging with Multi-shot DWI.

syngo SWI

Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging differentiates tissueswith different susceptibilities.

syngo DTI

Acquisition of data sets with up to 192 diffusion encod-ing directions to assess anisotropic diffusion properties, e.g. of the brain. Quick tracking to trace white matter tracts, for example in pre-surgery planning.

Standard Single-Shot EPI, b1000 syngo RESOLVE, b1000

Microhemorrhagic lesions in SWI ThinMIP

... than ever before.

MAGNETOM ESSENZA delivers outstanding image quality from head to toe. The Tim Application Suite comprises the Neuro, Ortho, Body, Angio, Cardiac, Breast, Oncology, and Pediatric2 suite to support the complete range of clinical applications.

Images courtesy of:Escenografia Neurologica, Medelin, ColombiaPLA No. 306 Hospital, Beijing, P.R. ChinaFukuoka Shin-Mizumaki-town, Fukuoka, JapanZhongshanyi Town Health Centre, Guang Zhou, P. R. China

Find out more on www.siemens.com/MAGNETOM-ESSENZA

2 MR scanning has not been established as safe for imaging fetuses and infants under two years of age. The responsible physician has to decide about the benefit of the MRI examination in comparison to other imaging procedures.

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3D CSI for prostate

3D Chemical Shift Imaging for prostate spectros-copy to support tumor diagnosis.

2D CSI

2D Chemical Shift Imaging in brain or prostate

syngo NATIVE

Contrast-free MR Angiography for visualizing the vessels in different body regions, e.g., renal arteries or peripheral vessels.

syngo TWIST

Time-resolved 3D contrast-enhanced MR Angiography (MRA) technique with very high temporal (sub- second) and spatial resolution (sub-millimeter).

Lesion evaluation in the brain with 2D CSI for

brain

More applications. More productivity. More confidence.

Measured grid Evaluation of selected voxel

Spectral map

NATIVE for peripheral angiography NATIVE for renal arteries

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Dot Productivity Pack.Featuring MAGNETOM ESSENZA – A Tim+Dot system.

Make complex exams routine. For more productivity & more referrals

• Expertresults,easy,fastandconsistently

• Fastandpredictableworkflow

• Enablesfasterreadingwithhigherconfidence

…withtheuniqueguidance,examstrategies, clinicaldecisionpoints,&muchmore…

Dot (Day optimizing throughput) is a new way of scanning in MRI – a better way. The Dot Productivity Pack allows you to integrate complex MRI exams smoothly into your daily routine. The unique guidance and semi-automatic tools enable you to increase your productivity and, at the same time, consistently achieve high-quality results. Both helping you to broaden your clinical scope and convince your referrals.

AVG13:36

AVG15:48

Frequency

ExamTime(min)

STDEV0.41 STDEV4.05

AbdomenDotWorkflow Conventionalworkflow

More productivity. More applications. More confidence.

Knee Dot engineImprovedevaluationofsofttissueinproximityoforthopedicMR-conditionalmetalimplants,duetolesssusceptibilityartifactswithsyngoWARP*.

Automaticpositioningofslicesforreproduciblejointorientationintheimage–with AutoAlign.

Covertheanatomyyouneed,automaticallyandconsistentlyforeverypatient–with AutoCoverage.

The Dot Productivity Pack consists of the following Dot Engines and is exclusively available for MAGNETOM ESSENZA:

More productivity. More applications. More confidence.

Angio Dot engineComprehensive,uniqueguidanceforeachindividualworkflowstepforintuitive,accurateandconsistentcontrasttiming–with Guidance View.

Automaticdetectionofarterial/venoustimingwindowandautomaticadaptionofscanparameters–with Test Bolus.

Automaticanatomicalorangiographiccomposingofmultipleadjacentcoronalorsagittalimages– with syngo Inline Composing.

Abdomen Dot enginePerform“hassle-free”breath-holdimagingforoptimaltimingofscanningandbreathing–withlanguage-specificAuto Voice Commands.

Getfulldiagnosticinformationthroughconsistentcontrasttiming–withAuto Bolus Detection.

Adaptthescanstrategytoclinicalneeds,e.g.justaddanMRCPorDiffusioneasily–withasinglemouseclickandtheuniqueDot Decisions Points.

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Make complex exams routine. For more productivity & more referrals

* The MRI restrictions (if any) of the metal implant must be considered prior to patient undergoing MRI exam. MR imaging of patients with metallic implants brings specific risks. However, certain implants are approved by the governing regulatory bodies to be MR conditionally safe. For such implants, the previously mentioned warning may not be applicable. Please contact the implant manufacturer for the specific conditional information. The conditions for MR safety are the responsibility of the implant manufacturer, not of Siemens.

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1 Data on file; results may vary.

2 The statements by Siemens’ customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.

3 The MRI restrictions (if any) of the metal implant must be considered prior to patient undergoing MRI exam. MR imaging of patients with metallic implants brings specific risks. However, certain implants are approved by the governing regulatory bodies to be MR condi-tionally safe. For such implants, the previously men-tioned warning may not be applicable. Please contact the implant manufacturer for the specific conditional information. The conditions for MR safety are the responsibility of the implant manufacturer, not of Siemens.

4 MAGNETOM Tim Systems covered by a Siemens Service Contract Performance Plan TOP.

5 MR scanning has not been established as safe for imaging fetuses and infants under two years of age. The responsible physician has to decide about the benefit of the MRI examination in comparison to other imaging procedures.

Images courtesy of:Battlefield Imaging, Ringgold, USABupyeong Himchan Hospital, Incheon, Republic KoreaCDPI, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (IG Brochure)CEDIB, Barretos, BrazilHopital Prive de la Seine St. Denis, Le Blanc Mesnil, FranceHospital La Moraleja, Madrid, SpainHospital Santa Virginia, Sao Paulo, BrazilPeople’s Hospital, Shenzhen, P. R. ChinaPRO-VITA, Sofia, Bulgaria Sanatorio Allende, Cordoba, Argentina Shanghai City Children`s Hospital, Shanghai, P.R. ChinaTateyama Hospital, Tateyama, Japan

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