TimTX TrueShape enabling syngo ZOOMit

Overview
Overview
TimTX TrueShape
TimTX TrueShape
syngo ZOOMit
syngo ZOOMit
How it works
How it works

TimTX TrueShape enabling syngo ZOOMit – Will be the world’s first parallel transmit application.

TimTX TrueShape is Siemens' architecture for parallel transmit (pTX) technology.
With TimTX TrueShape you will be able to shape the RF pulse according to your application and experience a whole new degree of freedom. The expected results are higher image quality and faster scan times.
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syngo ZOOMit – Will be the first zoom function for MR imaging.
This unique application uses selective excitation to allow you to shape your image. Use syngo ZOOMit to highlight regions, organs, or even features of an organ.
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Designed for:

Higher image quality

Less distortions, less blurring
Higher B1 homogeneity due to zooming
Better fat saturation
Less motion and flow artifacts
Increased spatial resolution in region of interest

Higher speed

Shorter echo trains
Shorter scan time due to fewer phase-encoding steps

Future security

The product is still under development and not commercially available yet. Its future availability cannot be ensured.

TimTX TrueShape – Shape your pulse.

With TimTX TrueShape you will be able to shape your RF pulse to achieve a new degree of freedom in MR imaging. It enables selective excitation of a specific body area. TimTX TrueShape is designed to break ground for a broad range of new MRI applications. Starting now with syngo ZOOMit, a zoom function for MRI, TimTX TrueShape will bring TX array imaging into the clinical world. Just imagine the potential for your research!

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The parallel transmit architecture of the future

TimTX TrueShape will provide multi-channel TX array imaging, resulting in higher image quality and shorter scan times. Shape the RF pulse according to your application and experience a whole new degree of freedom. With two transmit channels fully integrated and upgradeable into the system architecture of the 3 Tesla scanner MAGNETOM Skyra, you will be ready for the future.

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Designed for groundbreaking MRI applications

The interaction of independent transmit channels in TimTX TrueShape, enables the selective excitation of a specific body area. That’s the key to a broad range of outstanding new MRI applications like zooming with syngo ZOOMit. Only the sky is the limit.

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Parallel transmit for research and clinical use

TimTX TrueShape will transfer parallel transmit technology from research into the clinical world with syngo ZOOMit, the first TrueShape application. This powerful technology can boost your research activities and open up new horizons in the future.

The product is still under development and not commercially available yet. Its future availability cannot be ensured.

syngo ZOOMit – Shape your image.

syngo ZOOMit will be the first zoom function for MR imaging. Based on TimTX TrueShape, Siemens’ parallel transmit technology, syngo ZOOMit creates a zoom effect during MR imaging. This unique application uses selective excitation to allow you to shape your image. Use syngo ZOOMit to highlight regions, organs, or even features of an organ.

Planned features:

Create an MRI zoom through selective excitation

syngo ZOOMit creates a zoom effect during MR imaging for faster scanning and improved image quality. Thanks to multi-channel technology with its fully flexible wave forms, you can select a small stripe instead of a large excitation plane. This will allow you to perform a targeted excitation. Data volume is reduced from the very start, as well as time effort for phase-encoding steps. The scan will be faster and image quality in the selected zoom area is considerably improved.

The first TrueShape application for clinical use

With syngo ZOOMit, Siemens is the first company to provide a zoom function for MR imaging. Enabled by Siemens’ parallel transmit (pTX) technology TimTX TrueShape, it is the first of a broad range of TrueShape applications for clinical use. As innovation leader, Siemens creates the future of MRI – impressively demonstrating how to get the most out of a promising technology like pTX.

syngo ZOOMit will be especially suited for brain, prostate and pancreas, as well as spine applications, and in the visualization of certain areas of hip bone and shoulder joints.
Based on EPI or SPACE sequences
Expected benefits: Higher resolution, less time, less artifacts

Be part of the future with TimTX TrueShape

Collaboration is the key for innovative MRI technologies and applications. Based on Siemens’ large network of innovation partnerships, syngo ZOOMit is the result of fruitful collaboration backed by the pTX architecture TimTX TrueShape. And this is only the beginning of the full potential of parallel transmit technology. Together, let’s explore the limits.

The product is still under development and not commercially available yet. Its future availability cannot be ensured.

How it works

Conventional MR imaging uses one RF pulse. In higher field strengths (3T) this may lead to shading artifacts. Already in 2007 Siemens introduced TimTX TrueForm as standard B1 shimming solution. TimTX TrueForm uses different amplitudes to reduce shading artifacts and increase image quality. With TimTX TrueShape you will be able shape your RF pulse freely to achieve a new degree of freedom in MR imaging. This results in faster scans and higher image quality.