Trusted Partnership, Clinical Confidence

“I have been asked by several VA facilities and civilian hospitals why we chose Canon magnets for our new hospital. I can best explain in bullet points.

• I first purchased a Canon 1.5T magnet in 2021 for our existing hospital.
• I formed a clinical review team and we reviewed 5 MR vendors.

• Local service engineer or an engineer with same day access
• Parts depot locally or within a single or short flight away with frequent needed parts
• Coils – review variety versus what we needed
• Image quality – reviewed by technologists and radiologists
• Sequence flexibility – ease of amending protocols
• Service contract – hours, any additional years covered under warranty

• Applications – MR techs are now a commodity and consider taking higher competing jobs. Also techs get complacent or start bad habits. Having the most available applications package was paramount for us.
• Vendor representatives, regional MR specialists and corporate team all willing to provide support.
• Reduced noise
• Cost per submitted RFP

• First we use university radiologists that have in-depth MR knowledge because several have presented research papers and others are considering potential MR projects (i.e. in arterial spin labeling and another in dementia). Canon corporate and applications will work with us on these projects.
• Canon offered the best warranty plan
• Canon offered the best applications plan

• Canon had consistent image quality across, neuro, body and MSK imaging
• Canon offered the coils we needed
• Canon made commitments in their warranty, service contract and applications offerings that were backed up in writing, they went the extra mile.