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Forge
Make the unimaginable the expected
SIGNA™ Architect
fueled by SIGNA™ Works
Imagine what MR can be

Architect is CE-marked.
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Unleash
Clear advances with clear advantages

Now the potential for MR is even more astonishing with the SIGNA™ Architect 3.0T,
the most advanced and intuitive engineering in MR technology from GE Healthcare.
Fueled by our new SIGNA™Works productivity platform, the SIGNA™ Architect is a
harmonious design of form and function. Everything in its blueprint is crafted to
significantly energize your productivity, enhance security, improve diagnostics and
boost your bottom line.

Welcome to the future of MR. Forge ahead with SIGNA™ Architect.

SIGNA™Works
The new standard is extraordinary
Our new SIGNA™Works productivity platform redefines productivity across the breadth of our
core imaging techniques with solutions. The SIGNA™Works standard applications portfolio is an
extensive set of high quality and efficient imaging capabilities that enables you to achieve desired
outcomes across your entire practice area.

SIGNA™Works is the lifeblood, the soul and the muscle - literally the fuel that drives your imaging
to the next level and beyond. SIGNA™Works standard applications come pre-loaded with the
SIGNA™ Architect as a fully integrated solution. It’s value-added technology that’s upgradeable
and can be customized further, giving you the flexibility to add applications to suit the needs of
your growing practice.

SIGNA™Works takes full advantage of TDI (Total Digital Imaging), further advancing diagnostics
and quickening throughput, while simultaneously improving patient outcomes and your ROI.
Energize
Phenomenal exams to meet your clinical needs

The SIGNA™Works applications portfolio contains NeuroWorks,

OrthoWorks, BodyWorks, OncoWorks, CVWorks and PaedWorks.
These imaging solutions cover a wide variety of contrasts, 2D and 3D
volumetric data, including motion correction capabilities.
SIGNA™Works provides all the tools you’ll need for your complete
clinical exam.
 NeuroWorks
This one-stop solution enables you to image brain, spine, vascular
and peripheral nerve anatomy with exceptional tissue contrast.
These motion-insensitive techniques feature single-click auto
alignment, providing the complete neuro solution from scanning to
post processing.

NeuroWorks also includes Cube, our 3D volumetric imaging suite,

standard with every system. This application allows you to suppress
CSF and either white or gray matter to increase lesion conspicuity.

PROPELLER MB, our latest PROPELLER enhancement, is a multi-shot

approach that preserves tissue contrast regardless of weighting
while also reducing motion artifacts. Additionally, this new technique
Cube DIR T2 PROPELLER MB Coronal (inverted) introduces new contrasts such as T1 FSE.
1.4 x 1.4 x 1.4mm .6 x .6 x 3mm

OrthoWorks
This extensive library of musculoskeletal imaging techniques
enables you to image bone, joint and soft tissue with remarkable
tissue contrast.

OrthoWorks also includes 3D volumetric Cube with proton-density,

combined with ASPIR, which enables improved fat suppression
uniformity, which is routinely done as three separate 2D scans. With
one 3D acquisition and multi-planar reformats, Cube may replace
individual 2D scans.

PD FatSat Cube Sagittal PD FatSat Coronal

.6 x .6 x 1.2mm .2 x .3 x 2.5mm
BodyWorks
With BodyWorks, we address one of the fastest growing areas in MR.
This all-inclusive library allows you to image abdominal and pelvic
anatomy with user flexibility to adapt to different patient types.

PB Navigators are GE’s solution to combat respiratory motion in

abdominal imaging. This free-breathing approach is compatible with
multiple pulse sequences including diffusion, PROPELLER MB, MRCP
and dynamic T1 imaging.

3D MRCP Navigated Turbo LAVA

1.4 x 1.4 x 1.2mm Free-breathing Dynamic Liver
1.9 x 2 x 4mm
:20 sec / phase

OncoWorks
This extensive library of techniques captures anatomic and
morphologic data to uniquely enable oncological assessment of the
anatomy. OncoWorks includes robust tissue contrast, motion-
insensitive, high temporal and spatial resolution imaging.

3D volumetric imaging with an optimized adiabatic fat suppression,

combined with ARC or ASSET, provides high spatial and temporal
resolution capture contrast uptake patterns. The images on the left
show lesion characteristics generated using AW VS7’s positive
enhancement map. The T2 PROPELLER image demonstrates small
FOV and motion-correction through the prostate.

FSPGR Ax Dynamic T2 PROPELLER Coronal

1 x 1 x 1.5mm .8 x .8 x 3mm
CVWorks
With our intuitive cardiac techniques, you can assess morphology, flow, function and
tissue viability plus gain crucial insights into vascular structure and flow dynamics.
CVWorks provides the flexibility to adapt to different patient types with exams that
vastly simplify workflow.
2D Cine FIESTA
With CVWorks, multi breath-hold imaging can be a thing of the past. Our latest Single Shot
MDE and Black Blood techniques provide patient-friendly alternatives to uncomfortable
breath-holds.

With our workflow-simplified QuickStep protocols, scanning whole body vasculature can
Black Blood - SSFSE
be done in less than 6 minutes. High-performance gradients allow bright blood pool and
myocardial tissue contrast on Cine FIESTA while preserving spatial resolution.

QuickStep MRA PS MDE

PaedWorks
PaedWorks provides specialized protocols to simply address the needs of your smallest,
most fragile patients. Techniques such as PB Navigators combined with PROPELLER MB
are used with advanced techniques like diffusion imaging, allowing for patient-friendly,
entirely free-breathing exams. Additionally, cardiac exams using Single Shot MDE
provide faster, more reliable results.

Images on the left demonstrate dynamic T1 imaging with PB Navigator, which enables
the patient to breath freely while capturing contrast in fast temporal phases.
Whole spine evaluation can be obtained simply with routine T2 frFSE imaging (right).

Navigated Turbo LAVA

Free Breathing Dynamic Liver
1.2 x 1.7 x 2.6mm
:25 sec / phase

T2 frFSE Sagittal
Expand
Broaden your areas of expertise

Take your expertise to the next level when you move beyond the standard with SIGNA™Works innovative applications.
Improved image quality, higher efficiency and a more streamlined workflow help you perform better than ever before.

HyperWorks SilentWorks
HyperWorks means hyper scanning with astonishing SilentWorks is GE’s most advanced noise-reducing
imaging and unsurpassed speed. HyperWorks, exclusively technology and strengthens our promise to transform the
introduced on SIGNATM Architect’s hardware and TDI patient experience. Traditional exams can be as loud as a
platform, delivers up to 8x faster results. rock concert, but our innovative SilentWorks technology
reduces sound levels to roughly the same as ambient
ViosWorks noise.
For the first time, all 7 dimensions of information; 3D in
space, 1D in time and 3D in velocity can be captured in a ImageWorks
10-minute or less cardiovascular scan. ViosWorks includes ImageWorks boosts your overall MR performance through
a cloud-based, real-time visualization tool, powered by automation and advanced post-processing capabilities.
Arterys. ViosWorks is truly groundbreaking as it reduces READY View visualization and MAGiC one-and-done
the complexity and cost of cardiac imaging with improved scanning help ensure consistent and clear results.
results in a shorter amount of time.
HyperWorks
HyperCube
HyperCube expands the capabilities of 3D imaging, allowing you to
significantly reduce scan times and eliminate artifacts such as motion
and aliasing by reducing the phase field of view without the presence of
aliasing artifacts.

HyperBand FA Map HyperBand DTI

HyperBand
HyperBand takes your diffusion to a new level by allowing you to acquire more slices or
diffusion directions within a typical scan.

Colored FA maps and FiberTrak images are acquired using the TDI 48 Channel Head Coil with a
HyperBand factor of 6.
HyperCube with Flex HyperCube Axial

HyperSense
Knee Cube
.4 x .4 x .4mm With HyperSense, you can obtain images with significantly fewer
samples, thereby reducing the overall scan time without
compromising spatial resolution or image quality. HyperSense is
not dependent on coil geometry and is less sensitive to image
artifacts or SNR loss at higher accelerations when compared to
conventional parallel imaging techniques.

T2 Cube Two Station 3D MRCP 3D TOF HyperBand and HyperSense are 510(k) pending with the FDA.
Spine Axial and Coronal 1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2mm .4 x .4 x .4mm These features are not available for sale in the United States and
MPR’s may not be commercially available in other regions.
ViosWorks
ViosWorks, powered by Arterys, provides detailed
quantitative flow and regurgitant measurements,
stroke volume, thickness, mass and ejection
fractions can be obtained with this precise and
non-invasive solution.
 SilentWorks ImageWorks
MAGiC
SilentWorks is available across all anatomies and can be done with
multiple weightings and coils, including DWI. Zero TE techniques enable
imaging in vasculature structures with less artifacts that are commonly The secret of MAGiC lies in its unique ability to make possible multiple
seen on traditional scans. And with new enhancements like 3D Silenz image contrasts in a single neuro scan. MAGiC delivers enhanced
and PROPELLER MB, your exam time is shortened without compromise. clinical flexibility by freeing up time for advanced imaging. MAGiC goes
beyond the routine, providing complementary parametric data for a
more complete picture. Image contrast can be changed by applying
simple adjustments after acquisition.

ZTE Silent MRA DWI with

SilentScan

3D T1 Sagittal SilentScan T2 PROPELLER FatSat DIR, FLAIR, PSIR (top), T2, T1 and T2 maps (bottom) were
with Axial and Coronal MPR’s Coronal with SilentScan
acquired in one scan
 READY View
READY View helps simplify complex exams by
providing a visualization platform that gives you
access to advanced post processing technology.
With READY View being directly available on the
MR operator console, it accelerates workflow and
reading readiness by eliminating time consuming
post processing steps.

cmr42
cmr42 is a comprehensive cardiovascular post
processing solution that uses automated
algorithms to assess tissue characterization,
mapping, flow and function.

NeuroQuant
NeuroQuant automatically segments and measures volumes of brain structures and compares these volumes to norms.
This information helps make a diagnosis and follow the progression of a disease. NeuroQuant can provide reports for a
variety of clinical impressions, including Age Related Atrophy, Hippocampal Volume Asymmetry, Multi-Structure Atrophy,
Triage Brain Atrophy, Brain Development and General Morphometry.
Elevate
Raise your MR performance to new heights
with groundbreaking technology
Designed to overcome barriers that held you
back. SIGNA™ Architect’s cutting-edge platform
makes it the most versatile, adaptable and
powerful system available from GE to date.
Now, feet-first, whole body coverage is made
easy. Dynamic yet insightful, the SIGNA™
Architect is MR built to work for you, not the
other way around.
Total Digital Imaging (TDI)
The SIGNA™ Architect offers startling advances in
imaging and a total imaging win with TDI.

GE’s Direct Digital Interface (DDI) employs an Digital Micro Switching (DMS) technology represents Digital Surround Technology (DST). The SIGNA™
independent analog-to-digital converter to digitize inputs a revolutionary advance in RF coil design by replacing Architect comes prepared for DST. DST combines
from each of 128 RF channels, eliminating unnecessary analog blocking circuits with intelligent Micro signals from every coil element. The exceptional SNR
noise enhancement. In other words, every element Electro-Mechanical Switches (MEMS). The result? Coil and sensitivity of the high-density surface coils are
translates to a digitized signal. The result? Not only does design supports ultrafast coil switching times for further combined with the superior homogeneity and deeper
DDI technology improve SNR of our images but it also expansion of zero TE imaging capabilities and reduced signal penetration of the integrated RF body coil,
works with legacy GE coils for unmatched flexibility. power consumption. resulting in richer spine and body image quality.

TDI 48 Channel Head Coil and Coil Suite

Introduced with the SIGNA™ Architect, the TDI 48 Channel Head Coil delivers
phenomenal performance for every patient, with a fit-adaptable design that
addresses 99.99% of the population while preserving the highest SNR and
supporting advanced imaging capabilities such as HyperWorks technologies.
The TDI 48 Channel Head Coil also includes advanced features such as video
goggles for patient comfort and fMRI studies, plus an industry-leading
EEG-compatible design.

The 48 Channel Head Coil is technology in development that represents ongoing

research and development efforts. Not yet for sale. Not cleared or approved by
the U.S. FDA or any other global regulator for commercial availability.
eXpress Dockable Table
The SIGNA™ Architect’s eXpress table delivers feet-first or head-first imaging
for all, with a more pleasant, quicker, targeted exam. Our table has the most
comfortable memory foam surface available, alleviating pressure points. With
its detachable egress, you never have to worry about how fast you can exit the
MR suite. And with Intellitouch patient positioning, just touch the edge of the
table to position your patients.
 FOV
In addition to accommodating larger patients, full 50x50x50cm FOV in a 70cm wide bore allows
you to properly image off-center anatomy such as shoulders and hips. The SIGNA™ Architect’s
phenomenal homogeneity enables our largest FOV ever, with higher gradient specifications.
Additionally, excellent spatial integrity is provided by 3D GradWarp distortion correction.
And no body part is left behind.

reFINE and deFINE

With reFINE, the challenge of 3.0T high-field uniformity has finally
met its match. Just like a home theater surround system can be
optimized, with reFINE, you increase your control over improved
RF pulse efficiency, so you get clearer, crisper signals no matter
your patient composition or position. reFINE makes consistent
3.0T imaging the rule, not the exception.

deFINE takes the results of SIGNA™ Architect to the next level

by enhancing the image appearance with integrated, in-line,
optimizable settings. These settings can be generated for each
individual sequence or for the entire exam. With deFINE, you
meet your high quality image needs and go beyond the normal.
About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services

that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical
imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring
systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies,
performance improvement and performance solutions services help our
customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower
cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the
global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable
healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on
our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs,
increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in
the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company
(NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving
healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at
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