Portalbella.com

http://www.portalbella.com/

 

 

So here I am, one morning in early January driving across the state of Florida, just me, my favorite overpriced specialty coffee, and the open road.  I’m in a big white company van, loaded with computer equipment, that has a perfect rhythm of squeaking metal.  As I turn off I-95 onto state road 70 heading west, I see nothing but open boring road lying ahead of me….and when I say boring, if you’ve made this 3+ hour drive, then you can empathize with me.  It doesn’t take long for my mind to start thinking in overdrive as it often does when I’m alone, especially driving or running.  This is when the ideas start flowing.  This will be the 6 hour round trip that gives birth to Portalbella.com.

 

Hi, my name’s Bobby and thank you for checking out Portalbella.  I work in the I.T. field and one of my many duties is maintaining our company’s intranet site.  The company’s intranet home page is your basic layout which includes links to frequently used resources, RSS feeds, weather widgets, and even a Google search bar.  I was thinking to myself how lost our users are when they can’t access this very important intranet page, it’s like, well, their Portal to our corporate world. 

 

Now this is were the wheels really started turning!  I asked myself, “What if”, I love “What if’s”, “What if, a person at home could have their very own intranet page, or lack of better words, their very own Portal to the World Wide Web?”  After all,  I saw first hand how important our company’s intranet page was and how efficient it made everyone’s life.  If somehow I could create a website that would allow anyone from age 5 to age 105 easily create their own home page, that would allow them add links to their favorite websites, upload an image as their background, integrate Google Search, and let them add widgets or RSS feeds, then I could make everyone’s life a little easier, fun, and even efficient!

 

I thought to myself, I’m going to do this!  From that 6 hour road trip, Portalbella.com was born…but wait….as I was driving, I was thinking of a name for the site, which took me quite a while, and when I thought of Portalbella, the name just stuck and I couldn’t get it out of my head…but would the domain name be available ….nope! 

 

Like every other domain name out there, some one bought it and parked it!  I knew I had to have this domain name to make it all work, but I couldn’t spend $2000 or $3000 for it which I figured would be the asking price.  I got the email back from the company selling the name, scrunching my face, I proceeded to open the email, and to my surprise I see a very reasonable price…whew, I thought…and after a little negotiation, which I’m not that clever at, I got it even cheaper!

 

Armed with the domain name, programming skills, and being single – a requirement, I worked nights after work until 1am, 2am, and sometimes later building a site that I hope many of you will find fun, useful, and even let you be a little creative.

 

….and the ironic thing is, I don’t even like mushrooms!!

http://www.portalbella.com/

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1.5 tesla siemens espree PINK

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Pink Comfort – 

Unparalleled 70 cm open-bore for increased patient comfort and easy patient access.
Pink Applications – 
A wide range of applications dedicated to improve diagnostic confidence.
Pink Workflow – 
Comprehensive tools that support the continuum of breast care. From early detection to 
follow-up.

Introducing MAGNETOM^® Espree – Pink, the next generation of breast MRI.

 

 

• 70 cm open-bore design
• Feet-first patient positioning as well as head-first
• Comprehensive portfolio of applications for breast care
• Sentinelle Vanguard for Siemens for both imaging and biopsy
• Fast examination time for higher patient throughput

 MAGNETOM Espree – Pink Brochure[787 KB]

Faster imaging, superior clinical detail, shorter exams – these are all part of the next generation of breast care. With its optimized applications, MAGNETOM Espree – Pink enables you to see more, by improving accuracy and showing more details. These applications enable truly comprehensive breast care, helping to improve diagnostic confidence as well as patient care.

 

 Excellent tissue differentiation in patient with lobular cancer

syngo VIEWS

Isotropic 3D imaging is essential when it comes to high-quality multiplanar image reconstruction in any orientation. syngo^® VIEWS (Volume Imaging with Enhanced Water Signal) provides isotropic imaging protocols with high temporal and high spatial resolution as well as excellent fat suppression. You can acquire images bilaterally or unilaterally with excellent coverage of the retrosternal axillae. 

Courtesy of Centre IRM Ville Marie, Montreal, Canada

 

 Increased specificity for breast lesions, for differentiation of benign versus malignant lesion

syngo REVEAL

To ensure the best possible patient care, staging the disease extent is crucial. syngo REVEAL is a Siemens MR diffusion technique which improves specificity. By aquiring ADC maps it allows you to visualize potentially malignant lesions as well as metastatic infiltrations of lymph nodes and residual or recurrent tumors. Although it adds just a few minutes to your examination, syngo REVEAL with iPAT acceleration can improve diagnostic confidence and influence therapy planning. 

Courtesy of Centre IRM Ville Marie, Montreal, Canada

 

 Motion artifact compensation even in case of severe movement

syngo BLADE*

High-quality images in breast MRI – even in the case of severe patient movement. syngo BLADE offers a unique way to compensate for motion in non-dynamic data acquisition: By acquiring radial blades, it measures and corrects motion artifacts, providing clear, high-resolution images.syngo BLADE works in all contrasts and is iPAT-compatible, which shortens exam time and leads to reduced motion artifacts. Avoid repeat exams due to anxious patients and motion artifacts and improve your workflow and patient throughput.

 

 Breast spectroscopy with quantification for effective therapy monitoring and lesion differentiation

syngo GRACE*

High levels of choline are often found in malignant breast lesions on MR spectroscopy. syngo GRACE is an advanced, single-voxel MR spectroscopy tool dedicated to breast evaluation. It offers two push-button methods for relative quantification of the total choline signal in the breast: internal (water) reference and external (sample) reference. This relative quantification produces a reliable value of the choline signal – independent of measurement conditions. In this way, syngo GRACE can provide information about treatment efficacy, helping to improve your therapy monitoring.

 

 

Pink Comfort

Openness. What could better ease patient anxiety – particularly for claustrophobic or obese patients? MAGNETOM Espree – Pink’s open-bore design offers an industry-leading 70 cm inner diameter. This unparalleled design provides exceptional comfort, enabling patients to feel more at ease. But it doesn’t stop there. The system’s design enables feet-first and head-first positioning, whichever is more appropriate for your patient. Yet, you can still obtain the exceptional imaging you need. The coil design of the Sentinelle Vanguard for Siemens is perfect for MAGNETOM Espree – Pink, offering you excellent access to perform biopsies.

At only 125 cm, MAGNETOM Espree – Pink is the shortest system on the market, offering high flexibility and increased patient comfort.

Compact Magnet

• Ultracompact 1.5T magnet (length: 120 cm)
• Wide, patient-friendly inner bore diameter (70 cm)
• Magnet weight incl. Helium only approx. 3,800 kg
• Unique CT-like 70 cm Open Bore diameter

 

 

Sentinelle Vanguard for Siemens

The renowned technology of the 2/4/8-channel Sentinelle Breast Coil provides excellent image quality and optimal access for biopsy. The Sentinelle Vanguard for Siemens enables improved interventional accuracy and shorter exam times through an optimized workflow, which puts you one step closer to improving cost efficiency.
The coil is designed with variable coil geometry (VCG) that allows to accommodate a wide range of patient sizes, increases patient comfort, and increases signal-to-noise ratio, ultimately delivering excellent image quality.

 

8-channel set-up for imaging

General

 

• Patient Frame
• Riser
• Immobilization plate
• Two 3-channel diagnostic insert coils; two 1-channel biopsy insert coils; one 2-channel medial coil
• The coil can be used in the following configurations:
  8-channel diagnostic imaging; 4-channel biopsy (bilateral); 
  2-channel biopsy (unilateral)
• Breast cushion set
• Height adjustable head rest
• Head rest cushion
• Contralateral support plate for use in all unilateral biopsy

 

 

4-channel set-up for biopsy

Applications

• Simultaneous imaging of both breasts in all directions
• Uni- or bi-lateral imaging of the breasts in sagittal direction
• Uni-lateral biopsy imaging for lateral and medial access
• High-resolution 2D and 3D imaging
• Good iPAT capabilities, iPAT factors up to 3

 

Computer

syngo, the highly intuitive Siemens cross-modality user interface, is the basis for all MAGNETOM Espree – Pink applications. Enabling you to expand your capabilities in the field of Breast MRI.

Cost-Effective Siting

With its small footprint of 27 sqm (290 sq. ft.), siting MAGNETOM Espree – Pink is easy and efficient. And there is no need for a dedicated computer room.

• 27 sqm (290 sq. ft.) floor only
• No computer room required for a total of just two electronics cabinets (water-cooled)

 

Metal-free guide wire for MRI catheterization procedures

German researchers have developed a new metal-free guide wire to allow for the use of MRI, instead of X-rays, for imaging the location during catheterization procedures. Clinically, the benefits of the MRI approach is that a contrast agent is not required to be injected into the patient, the precise location of the catheter’s tip can be easily identified on the computer screen, and no one has to be exposed to unnecessary radiation. We think such a technique can potentially improve outcomes in coronary and general vascular caths, by improving the precision and duration of these procedures.

From Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft:

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen have now found a way of avoiding both the radiation and the contrast medium. In collaboration with colleagues at Philips and University Hospital Aachen, they have developed a guide wire made of glass-fiber-reinforced plastic. “Because the guide wire is made of plastic the imaging can be performed by magnetic resonance tomography instead of computer tomography,” says IPT scientist Adrian Schütte. “This is not possible with metal guide wires as the metal wire acts as an antenna and heats up too much – this would damage the vessels, and could cause proteins to clot.” Magnetic resonance tomography has many advantages for doctors and patients. It does not produce ionizing radiation like computer tomography, and soft tissue is clearly visible, so there is no need for a contrast medium. 

For the manufacture of the two-meter guide wires the researchers use the pultrusion method, which is the standard procedure for making continuous profiles from glass-fiber-reinforced plastic. “Diameters of half a millimeter or less are required for the guide wires – that’s the absolute minimum,” explains Schütte. The new guide wires will be presented at the JEC trade fair in Paris (Hall 1, Stand T18) from March 24 to 26 and will be used in hospitals for the first time in the next few months.