Hot take... with one caveat IF the protocol has been set up well and optimized by an experienced tech... I think the Philips systems are the easiest to 'button push' on if you're first learning, so you can begin to wrap your head around the anatomy and slice positioning before dealing with the physics. When you're a brand new tech and aren't yet comfortable with the parameters, the first ones you end up having to adjust are FOV, oversampling, and # of slices. To my knowledge, Philips is the only vendor to dynamically adjust phase/freq encoding matrices as you change FOV, so you just have to deal with # slices. That being said, if the scan takes a left turn and you have to adjust things, the Philips is way more complex to adapt on the fly, especially with a protocol that isn't optimized, there's SO many ways to go wrong with all the Philips specific parameters. I learned on a GE first by reading the manual and scanning animals, so my learning experience may be way off from y'alls. These days, I like GE for Neuro and MSK, Siemens for Cardiac, and Philips for body imaging. Maybe another hot take there.
Love it. Thank you so much for sharing your point of view. As we mentioned during the video, unfortunately both of us has had limited Philips MR exposure, especially with brand new scanners, however, hearing your perspective about it has been extremely valuable. That has been the whole point of this podcast episode, having rads from all over the world sharing their our journeys and experiences. Thank you for taking in time in doing that!
@@everything-mri Agree! It's huge positive to have venues for techs to talk shop. Likewise, I've never had the chance to see any Canon, Toshiba, or Esaote at all! Would be interesting...
I think we can all agree that this is quite a useful function, especially if you consider those situations where the patient squeeze the buzzer and you have just few seconds to complete the sequence acquisition! That is always very tricky if only stopping is allowed!
I learned the Siemens E11 thru the manual on the scanner. Not an easy thing but if you have nobody to train you you have to do it. Going to the XA was more hands on and googling and asking others that use it. When you scan, you really don't have a lot of time to figure things out. The Radiologists just want the images and don't give a crap if you don't know "how" to do whatever it is that they want. I like Siemens. I am really confused about your statements about the difference between GE and Siemens.. I found that GE was VERY EASY to learn and switching to Siemens can be a huge learning curve. I thought of GE as the 'button pusher' job. I didn't have to do any 'thinking' because it would do it all. I have trained numerous techs that were transitioning from GE to Siemens while I worked in Apps and they ALL had a lot of difficulty. Because with Siemens you need to "know" what the parameters need to be for your images. It will not do it for you... at least not in the older versions of the software. Yes it will scan, but you have to have the technical knowledge to get a readable scan. The pop ups and delays are VERY annoying. It turns a 15 minute exam into 25 minutes. And that is frustrating when the schedule only gives you 15 minute time slots!!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. This is absolutely valuable! Again, for us this was just a window to share our personal opinions and professional journeys. Obviously, different people may have different opinions about this. But yeah, your comment makes absolutely sense and I hope this will spark off a little bit the discussion about this interesting topic. Thank you so much
Hot take... with one caveat
IF the protocol has been set up well and optimized by an experienced tech...
I think the Philips systems are the easiest to 'button push' on if you're first learning, so you can begin to wrap your head around the anatomy and slice positioning before dealing with the physics. When you're a brand new tech and aren't yet comfortable with the parameters, the first ones you end up having to adjust are FOV, oversampling, and # of slices. To my knowledge, Philips is the only vendor to dynamically adjust phase/freq encoding matrices as you change FOV, so you just have to deal with # slices.
That being said, if the scan takes a left turn and you have to adjust things, the Philips is way more complex to adapt on the fly, especially with a protocol that isn't optimized, there's SO many ways to go wrong with all the Philips specific parameters.
I learned on a GE first by reading the manual and scanning animals, so my learning experience may be way off from y'alls.
These days, I like GE for Neuro and MSK, Siemens for Cardiac, and Philips for body imaging. Maybe another hot take there.
Love it. Thank you so much for sharing your point of view. As we mentioned during the video, unfortunately both of us has had limited Philips MR exposure, especially with brand new scanners, however, hearing your perspective about it has been extremely valuable. That has been the whole point of this podcast episode, having rads from all over the world sharing their our journeys and experiences. Thank you for taking in time in doing that!
@@everything-mri Agree! It's huge positive to have venues for techs to talk shop.
Likewise, I've never had the chance to see any Canon, Toshiba, or Esaote at all! Would be interesting...
How is magnifico as a primary scanner for radiology centre instead of conventional 1.5T close bore? Any other alternative
It's possible to pause sequences with the new Philips scanners.
I think we can all agree that this is quite a useful function, especially if you consider those situations where the patient squeeze the buzzer and you have just few seconds to complete the sequence acquisition! That is always very tricky if only stopping is allowed!
I learned the Siemens E11 thru the manual on the scanner. Not an easy thing but if you have nobody to train you you have to do it. Going to the XA was more hands on and googling and asking others that use it. When you scan, you really don't have a lot of time to figure things out. The Radiologists just want the images and don't give a crap if you don't know "how" to do whatever it is that they want.
I like Siemens. I am really confused about your statements about the difference between GE and Siemens.. I found that GE was VERY EASY to learn and switching to Siemens can be a huge learning curve. I thought of GE as the 'button pusher' job. I didn't have to do any 'thinking' because it would do it all. I have trained numerous techs that were transitioning from GE to Siemens while I worked in Apps and they ALL had a lot of difficulty. Because with Siemens you need to "know" what the parameters need to be for your images. It will not do it for you... at least not in the older versions of the software. Yes it will scan, but you have to have the technical knowledge to get a readable scan.
The pop ups and delays are VERY annoying. It turns a 15 minute exam into 25 minutes. And that is frustrating when the schedule only gives you 15 minute time slots!!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. This is absolutely valuable! Again, for us this was just a window to share our personal opinions and professional journeys. Obviously, different people may have different opinions about this. But yeah, your comment makes absolutely sense and I hope this will spark off a little bit the discussion about this interesting topic. Thank you so much
1:23 for the real video.. all before is clickbait.
@@everything-mri most intros are better at about 5 to 10 seconds.. people have very short attention spans on YT!!