Hospital purchased scanner

Dayton Children’s Hospital has purchased a new $1.9 million state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that will deliver the clearest images possible during tests to detect a variety of conditions, including problems of the brain, spinal cord, skeleton, chest and lungs.

The new 3T MRI scanner creates a powerful magnetic field and radio waves to produce detailed pictures of the body’s organs and structures at about twice the clarity of images produced by the hospital’s current 1.5T scanner, according to hospital officials. The hospital will continue to use both scanners, which produce clearer images of body parts that cannot be seen as well with an X-ray, CT scan, or ultrasound.