New Whole Body MRI - Effective Imaging ride inside the body – One of the benefits is that it enables early detection of cancer spread

Diwan Chand Satya Pal Aggarwal Imaging Research Center announces the launch of The Whole Body MRI

New Delhi, 19th June’06:

Diwan Chand Satya Pal Aggarwal Imaging Research Center (DCA), the oldest and largest radiology diagnostic center in the country, at present is all geared up to take diagnostic research to newer heights. Equipped with faster acquisition techniques, DCA today is proud to facilitate Whole-Body MR Imaging (MRI) that has complimented the matured scene of the diagnostic resources in the Center, from its use in investigations to being a viable and powerful diagnostic tool for evaluating cancer traces and skeletal tumors in the body.

As non-communicable and life style related diseases transcend the age barrier and threaten all and sundry from adolescent to old, the fear of unknown inside the body is taking its heavy toll. Everyone wants to know the general well-being of the body and be free from scare of something silently eating into the internal vitals but lack of a harmless body screening module has so far prevented one from going for having a whole body look inside. Traditional CT scan was not advised without there being symptoms because they were not safe. Besides radiation, so far internal body screening mostly needed some kind of invasion in the form of medicine/contrast, which sometimes could prove fatal, either.

But here is a New Whole Body MRI that transcends all the risks involved in scanning the body so far. Luxury of knowing the general well being of vital organs inside the body is not only risk free but cost effective also. It is just a simple imaging scan inside the body and you can be sure that there is nothing wrong with the physiology of your vital organs.

The highlights of latest new Whole Body MRI are as follows:

• First non-invasive screening module
• No radiation
• No risk
• Screens for general well being
• Catches spread of cancer if any at an early stage
• Can pick up incidental cancer or anomalies in the body organ and push the alarm button so that a preventive or a curative action could be taken well in time.
• Cost effective

The all-new Whole Body MRI package includes a whole-body moving platform that fits on the patient support and provides rapid, automated table movement enabling head-to-toe screening.

Dr Sriram Rajan, Consultant Radiologist, DCA, expresses, “It helps to determine the spread of metastasis (cancer that has spread to various organs in the body) quickly and accurately .The whole body MR is also used for whole body Angio. Also suitable for driving away the obessions of hypochondriac individuals, MRI screening gives them a glance on their general well being in split seconds.”

Dr Bharat Aggarwal, Director, DCA, stresses, “Whole-body MRI has gained much attention in recent years as a means toward early disease detection. As a matter of fact, risks associated with high radiation doses inherent to other non-invasive screenings are far from being associated to this new technique of whole body MRI that contributes to reveal high diagnostic accuracy and lack of side effects, which at large combine to render whole body MR a natural candidate for screening purposes.”

He further adds, “DCA has always been amongst the first ones to bring world-class technological developments in the field of diagnostic Imaging to India, and we will continue to do so.”

About DCA

Established in the year 1924, Diwan Chand Satya Pal Aggarwal Imaging Research Centre, New Delhi has now completed its 82 years of service in the country and is now managed by its third generation of successors who proudly claim that radiology is their hallmark. The trendsetter in the field, Diwan Chand Satya Pal Aggarwal Imaging Research Centre, is a leading institute using state-of-the-art technology today and is equipped with advanced world-class diagnostic equipment and boasts of 64 Slice CT Scan, dedicated mammography units, digital radiography systems for routine X-rays, Multi-slice Spiral CT Scan, Digital OPG and many more such as MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound and has a dental radiology satellite clinic at Defence Colony, New Delhi .The group has also set up and is managing hospital based diagnostic centers in Delhi

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