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FerriScan : Non-invasive measurement of liver iron concentration
Sylvia:
Hello,
Joan, how did your FerriScan go at Boston? Please share your experience with us. Also, have you received the results from Dr Braunstein? Hope to hear from you soon.
Bostonian_04, I hope FerriScan had helped you and the doctors manage your daughter's therapy better. The reason why anaesthetic was used was to prevent too much movement in the MRI scanner. I believe your daughter is young and we all know young children can't stay still for long. Too much movement may compromise the quality of the data images which may affect the result of the analysis.
Sylvia:
New FerriScan Centres
Hello all,
Please note that there are a couple of new FerriScan centres setup recently.
1) Westmead Hospital
Crn Hawkesbury & Darcy Roads
Westmead, NSW 2145
Australia
2) SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210-1834
USA
Please contact your local treating clinicians if you are interested to have a FerriScan. A referral letter is required prior to you have a FerriScan at the MRI centres.
Thank you.
Sylvia
Sylvia:
New FerriScan center in Michigan
Hello to all
Please be informed that there is a new FerriScan center setup recently.
Spectrum Health Radiology Services
100 Michigan St NE MC046
Grand Rapids
Michigan 49503
USA
Kindly note that FerriScan is a referral service. Please discuss with your treating clinician if you are interested to have a FerriScan.
Thank you.
Sylvia
Canadian_Family:
Sylvia,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us.
Regards.
Sylvia:
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is keeping well and safe. I thought I would send all of you a quick update on what's happening in the world of FerriScan.
As winter approaches in Perth, Westen Australia, the heat is up on the FerriScan development that we are undertaking currently. We have commenced on with the FerriScan Rapide study in view to reduce the MRI scanning time. The standard FerriScan takes approximately 25-30min. The FerriScan Rapide once validated will take approximately 10-15 mins, reducing the scan time by 50%!
Once this service is launched, patients no longer needs to spend a long time in the MRI scanner. This also helps to reduce the MRI scanning cost charged by the hospital/imaging center.
Resonance Health is also looking into offering a cardiac T2* analysis service. We have received feedbacks from the clinical communities that a cardiac T2* measurement is essential even though patients are well-monitored. We are reviewing the relevant regulatory issues and we hope that we could offer a new regulatory approved, quality service to the clinical communities soon.
Our Chief Scientific Officer, Prof Tim St Pierre who is also one of the founders of FerriScan was invited to present at the International Thalassemia Day conference (6-7 May) in Cairo, Egypt. Prof St Pierre even had the honour to be interviewed by Nile News and Egyptian Satellite Channel. He was thrilled to be on Egyptian national television!!!
To all our Egyptian friends out there, if you have seen the interview on TV and you know where it is available online, please send me the link as all of us in the office would like to view it too.
At the same time, we would like to hear from you. If you have had a FerriScan before, we would like to hear your experience. Please feel free to share your comments. We can only improve from the feedback you give us. If you do not wish to share your personal experience in the open, feel free to drop me an email at sylviag@ferriscan.com
Stay tune for more updates from Down Under. :wink
Cheers
Sylvia
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