Weinreb Featured in Article on Improvements to Yale's Radiology Center
Even the nation's most prestigious medical facilities find reasons to celebrate when a state-of-the-art piece of radiology equipment is added to their arsenal of medical weapons. Such is the case with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at the Yale School of Medicine, which recently added 2 new MR scanners, making it now the "center of imaging in New England," according to a February 2 article in the Yale Daily News. The new scanners replaces the facility's oldest scanner, which is about 20 years old, and are part of a $5 million project to update Yale's MRI department.
"The facility needs significant renovations," notes ACR Fellow Jeffrey C. Weinreb, MD, a Yale radiology professor of diagnostic radiology, in the article. "When the MR scanners were initially installed, we really didn't know how to do MRI on very sick patients or kids."
As a result, the article notes that the facility's radiologists and technicians will need to be retrained to take advantage of the new equipment. Safety issues are one of the most important aspects of getting used to the 3.0-T scanners and their powerful magnets, noted Weinreb, chair of the ACR's Commission on Quality and Safety, adding that the facility's staff will "have to be on our guard" with the new technology.
However, both the facility and the patients will benefit from the new scanning capabilities.
"A university hospital such as Yale would find this type of machine not only useful in providing state-of-the-art patient care, but also in acquiring research grants both from government and the private sector," says ACR Fellow Arnold C. Friedman, MD, in the article.
Click here to read the full article in the Yale Daily News.