BlueSeal XE
Feel the freedom with BlueSeal
BlueSeal XE
Feel the freedom with BlueSeal
Based on its revolutionary fully sealed BlueSeal magnet, BlueSeal XE lets you experience more productive¹ helium-free MR operations. The BlueSeal XE delivers superb image quality, with up to 80% higher sharpness⁷, even for challenging patients, and performs MRI exams up to 3x faster² with SmartSpeed Precise accelerations for all anatomies. Fast overall exam-time is further achieved by simplifying patient handling at the bore with the guided patient setup. Furthermore, the BlueSeal XE offers an immersive audio-visual experience to help calm patients and guide them through MR exams.
Clinical image gallery
- C Spine STIR
- Cardiac BTFE
- Prostate T2 TSE
- L Spine STIR
- L Spine T2 TSE
Features
Forget about helium with BlueSeal magnet
Philips BlueSeal uses a new micro-cooling technology which requires only a negligible amount (less than 0.5% of today’s volume¹) of liquid helium for cooling. This fraction of the usual amount of liquid helium is placed in the magnet during manufacturing and then fully sealed. As a result, no liquid helium can escape³, either suddenly during a loss of field or gradually.
Designed to facilitate low siting and other construction costs
Compared to existing ZBO systems, BlueSeal is
up to 2050 kg (4,520 lbs) lighter⁴, eliminating the need for a quench
pipe and making installation easier in densely populated
cities, commercial buildings and sites with construction
limitations. The system’s flexibility enables continuous
operation without helium-related interruptions, ensuring
access to MR services even in challenging environments and remote areas, where
it is difficult to supply helium.
Toward uninterrupted MR operations
The BlueSeal magnet helps you prepare for emergency
situations and to resolve small incidents in less than 6 hours, and be back in
operations. It is the next step towards uninterrupted, more
productive daily MRI operations. AI driven EasySwitch is
designed to minimize unexpected downtime.
It allows the BlueSeal magnet to be discharged and recharged
behind the MRI console, without helium loss.
Specifications
- Sealed magnet system
- Field strength
- 1.5T
- Bore design
- 70 cm
- Magnet weight
- 2,050 kg* (4,520 lbs) *typical weight
- Typical homogeneity V-RMS
- ≤ 0.9 ppm (at 45 cm DSV)
- Micro-cooling technology
- Yes
- Maximum FOV
- 55 cm
- Type of magnet controllers
- Digital, adaptive intelligent
- Cryogen boil-off rate
- Not applicable, fully sealed
- Vent pipe requirements
- Not applicable, fully sealed
- Omega HP gradients
- Max. amplitude for each axis
- 45 mT/m
- Max. slew rate for each axis
- 200 T/m/s
- RF Receive
- Number of independent receive channels
- Channel independent
- Location of analog-to-digital converter (ADC)
- Inside the coil, close to receive elements
- Signal chain from coil to reconstructor
- Fully digital
- dStream
- Yes
- Siting information
- Minimum siting requirement
- 3.4 x 5.3 m
- Ceiling height (minimum)
- 2.56 m
- SmartWorkflow
- Guided exam set-up
- Yes
- Auto patient centering
- Yes
- Touchless respiratory-triggering
- Yes
- In-room exam start
- Yes
- ScanWise Implant
- Yes
- Automated planning and scanning
- Yes
- Automated patient coaching
- Yes
- Automated post-processing
- Yes
Related products
- Based on its revolutionary fully sealed BlueSeal magnet, BlueSeal SE lets you experience more productive¹ helium-free MR operations. The BlueSeal SE delivers superb image quality, with up to 80% higher sharpness⁷, even for challenging patients, and performs MRI exams up to 3x faster² with SmartSpeed Precise accelerations for all anatomies. Fast overall exam-time is further achieved by simplifying patient handling at the bore with the guided patient setup. Furthermore, the BlueSeal SE offers an immersive audio-visual experience to help calm patients and guide them through MR exams.
Disclaimer
1. Compared to the Ingenia 1.5T ZBO magnet.
2. Compared to Philips SENSE imaging.
3. Even in the rare case of the magnet becoming unsealed, the negligible amount of helium escaping would not materially affect the oxygen in the room.
4. Compared to conventional zero boil off and sealed 1.5T systems in the industry. Based on published product data.
5. Reconstruction technology consisting of a first AI engine applied at the source of signal (Adaptive CS-NET) and a second AI engine applied on the raw complex imaging data (Precise Net).
6. On average, measured across a sample of sited from Philips MR Installed Base.
7. Compared to Philips SENSE/ C-SENSE imaging.
8. Compared to a workstation.
9. Seamless indicates the workflow is an automatically enabled post-processing step in MR-console. Validation of the AI applications is done by the 3rd party and not by Philips.
10. Workflow refers to steps after completion of data-acquisition to AI processing. No additional user-interaction is required to send data to the External application cloud and to receive reports in PACS.
BlueSeal XE is not yet CE marked, and not available for sale.