University Daily Kansan, July 17, 1985
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Med Center magnet to allow new diagnoses
By Carol Stephenson Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, KAN — For the past 18 months, Gerald Imming, director of facilities planning at the University of Kansas Medical Center, had been trying to figure out how to get a 16,000-pound magnet and its 72,000 pounds of shielding into its 72,000 pounds of Bell Memorial Hospital.
Imming's plans became a reality about 10:30 a.m. Monday when the magnet and shielding, which together measure 8 feet wide and 9 feet high, arrived at the hospital's loading dock.
The magnet and shielding are the centerpiece of the Med Center's Magnetic Resonance Imaging system, a new diagnostic radiology unit that provides sharp images with the frequencies of bone and soft tissue.
"Because of its size, a lot of changes had to be made to accommodate the magnet." Imming said Friday.
The magnet was moved through a
10-by-10 hole, which had been cut in the wall between the loading dock and the basement.
It traveled through a hallway that once housed medical equipment, which was removed because the width of the magnet was much larger than the existing hallway. The magnetic force wasn't a problem, however, because the magnet must be connected to electricity to work
"Due to the weight of the magnet, we had no choice but to put it in the basement," said Susan Faszold. "It was a challenge." The department of diagnostic radiology
The magnet was put in a 2,856-square-foot room in the basement, which is being remodeled to accommodate the magnet. The room won't be completed until fall. The magnet and shielding are being assembled but won't be in use until the room is completed.
Imming said that because of the magnet's strong attraction, no iron components could be used as part of the building material in the room.
"Although the shielding does reduce the area of magnetic force, that force isn't completely eliminated," Imming said "So we had to rule out using nails and steel studs. Instead we used copper, brass and stainless steel."
Because water in the pipes would conduct radio signals that could create interference, to which the imaging process is sensitive, a new water system had to be set up so that the remained in the pipes. Immune said.
The $2 million MRI is similar to a CAT scanner. Fraszold said. The patient passes through a hole in the middle of the machine. How much of the patient's body goes through depends on which part of his body is being studied.
"The MRI works by magnetically exciting the atoms in the patient's body." Frascoid said. "When the atoms are excited, they give off radio waves which are picked up and read by a computer. The computer then
processes a picture of the problem area"
Errol Levine, professor of diagnostic radiology, said the new device was safer for the patient than using a CAT scan or X-ray.
"MRI doesn't use ionizing radiation, so it's harmless compared to X-rays," he said. "The same person would get sick from the worry of harmful side effects."
The system, Levine said, can produce three different views of the patient without the patient being moved.
"The images that it produces are highly detailed," he said. "The images are as good as a photo image in an anatomy book."
MRI will be an important device for studying the brain, spinal cord, heart and soft-tissue cancers, he said.
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