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Diagnostic confidence for daily excellence

MAGNETOM Free.Star

Whether you are investing in your first MR system, seeking to replace an MR scanner, or expanding your MRI services into other practices, a High-V MRI scanner is an obvious choice for your enterprise. Unique innovations in the fields of image acquisition and deep learning-based reconstruction help provide excellent and robust image quality. MAGNETOM Free.Star – uncompromised diagnostic confidence, day in and day out.

Most frequently used clinical applications

Whether it is head, neck, spine, abdomen or musculoskeletal (MSK) – our clinical experts have complete confidence in MAGNETOM Free.Star’s ability to deliver excellent diagnostic quality for all these standard clinical MRI applications. See for yourself:


Neuro Imaging

For an MRI of the brain, high resolution and good image contrast is essential. MAGNETOM Free.Star provides both. In addition to morphological sequences, diffusion and susceptibility-weighted images can be acquired to assess hemorrhage or ischemia in the brain.



Comprehensive Neuro Examination

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... than you can explore DICOM images of the High-V MRI scanners online?
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Spine imaging

In spinal imaging, chemical shift and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) motion have been among the most challenging MRI examinations in clinical practice historically, and they continue to do so today. A state-of-the-art MRI system needs to deliver high image quality, and have sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to reliably show spinal abnormalities, injuries and diseases. MAGNETOM Free.Star can be relied on for both.

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Standard C-Spine Exam
Standard C-Spine Exam
Standard T-Spine
Standard L-Spine Exam
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MSK imaging

MAGNETOM Free.Star offers great image quality for MSK examinations. Acquisitions are performed confidently with our latest image acquisition and reconstruction techniques such as Simultaneous Multi-Slice and Deep Resolve.

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Standard MSK Exam - Knee With SMS TSE
Standard MSK Exam - Knee With SMS TSE
Standard MSK Exam - Shoulder
Standard MSK Exam - Ankle
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... than you can explore DICOM images of the High-V MRI scanners online?
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Implant imaging

An added advantage of MAGNETOM Free.Star is in how it leverages its unique High-V technology to generate an unmatched image quality in the presence of metal implants. Whereas imaging at high field strength results in overwhelming susceptibility artifacts, MAGNETOM Free.Star enables an effective diagnosis of the underlying pathologies, regardless of proximity of the tissue to the implant.

High-V MRI Implant Imaging

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... than you can explore DICOM images of the High-V MRI scanners online?
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Abdominal imaging

Consistent image quality is imperative in routine abdominal imaging, particularly to support longitudinal studies e.g., in Oncology. To achieve this, the challenges posed, for instance, by organ movement in the abdominal region need to be addressed. MAGNETOM Free.Star reliably delivers high image quality in all sequences used throughout the abdomen, including HASTE*, BLADE** & diffusion weighted imaging. And by applying the unique CAIPIRINHA*** technique, we can ensure single breath-hold T1 VIBE Dixon imaging – supporting a motion-robust, patient-friendly approach.

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Abdomen Standard Liver Exam
Abdomen Standard Liver Exam
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... than you can explore DICOM images of the High-V MRI scanners online?
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* Half Fourier Single-shot Turbo spin-Echo
** Motion insensitive, multi-shot Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) sequence
*** CAIPIRINHA (Controlled Aliasing in Parallel Imaging Results in Higher Acceleration) is a data acquisition technique that significantly reduces breath-holds without affecting image resolution, coverage, or contrast.

New opportunities from High-V MRI

In addition to the wide range of clinical applications, MAGNETOM Free.Star harnesses previously untapped clinical potential. High-V MRI offers inherent physical benefits that overcome the limitations of today’s MR imaging and opens up exciting new clinical applications.

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High-V MRI Susceptibility Challenges



Robustness against geometric distortion

Single-shot EPI offers an excellent opportunity to speed up MR image acquisition; however, this imaging approach is vulnerable to geometric distortions at air-tissue interface. MAGNETOM Free.Star is robust against such artifacts. This can be easily observed in the single-shot EPI* on the right-hand side, where you clearly see preserved geometry of the brain and the eyeballs as well as non-distorted optic nerve across all slices.
High-V MRI Susceptibility Challenges
High-V MRI Implant Imaging
High-V MRI Pulmonary Imaging
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* The echo planar (EPI) is the fastest acquisition method in MRI (100 ms / slice), but with limited spatial resolution.

AI-based image reconstruction

Deep Resolve is our latest cutting-edge AI-powered image reconstruction technology. Equipped with especially trained deep neural networks and targeted denoising, Deep Resolve is able to increase image sharpness and reduce scan time.

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Deep Resolve Gain

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Deep Resolve Sharp

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Deep Resolve Gain


Deep Resolve Gain addresses locally varying noise with intelligent denoising, resulting in higher signal-to-noise ratio.

Deep Resolve Gain

Deep Resolve Gain is an intelligent data-driven algorithm that uses scan-specific quantitative noise maps in the reconstruction process for targeted denoising. It’s available for a broad range of sequences and boosts image quality for maximum diagnostic capabilities.

Deep Resolve Gain
Deep Resolve Sharp
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Deep Resolve: Acquiring sharper images, faster

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