University of Bern purchases Sectra's SyMRI software for synthetic MR

“SyMRI Suite provides us with increased safety and higher efficiency in our work”

Sectra (STO:SECTB) has secured the first order for the software SyMRI Suite from the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern. The software will enhance quality in conjunction with virtual autopsies.

"SyMRI Suite provides us with increased safety and higher efficiency in our work," says Professor Michael Thali, head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern.

The University of Bern is the first of a handful of pilot customers that have chosen to purchase the software, which is used together with Sectra PACS workstations, thereby providing radiologists with a more efficient workflow. "We focus on offering our customers powerful clinical applications and foresee major potential for SyMRI Suite," says Per Elmhester, Product Manager Clinical Solutions at Sectra.

The SyMRI Suite was rolled out at the beginning of 2010. The software for synthetic magnetic resonance (MR) helps hospital personnel to drastically reduce the time required per patient for MR examinations, thus increasing the availability of the MR equipment. In addition, tissue can be quantified, identified and its volume determined. SyMRI Suite is developed by Sectra's partner Synthetic MR.

MR examinations have increased steadily since the 1980s. MR technology is effective in cases involving tumors, aneurysms, examining the condition of organs as the heart, liver, kidneys and brain and in different soft tissue.