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Article: Quality ElectroDynamics LLC; Ultra-Compact MRI pre-amplifier.(NEWS)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- February 16, 2009
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Byline: Jay Miller
Quality ElectroDynamics LLC makes the coils that amplify radio signals used by magnetic resonance imaging equipment to build an image of the human body on a computer monitor.
The company's miniaturized MRI preamplifiers, which amplify the signal bounced off the patient's body without interfering with other signals, are significantly smaller in size than what currently is standard.
"This enables us to make a device with more receiving channels, which means faster scans and higher signal-to-noise ratios, which means we get a clearer image, said Hiroyuki Fujita, the company's president and CEO and a former physics professor at ...