Transition your department towards more productive High-Performance Helium-Free MR operations

The healthcare industry accounts for -30% of global Helium use [1]*, making it the world's largest consumer of Helium. A conventional MRI machine requires about 1,500 liters of liquid helium [2]* that needs to be periodically replenished, and there are -50,000 [3]*-mostly conventional-helium-cooled MRI scanners in use in the world today.

The criticality 

Helium is a non-renewable and nonrecoverable natural resource, found deep in the earth's crust and the world is facing a global Helium shortage. World's helium supplies are running dangerously low, helium prices have quadrupled in the last two years and the geopolitical tensions affecting helium supply chains have aggravated the crisis. This global Helium shortage calls for hospitals and diagnostic centers to plan for a reliable and sustainable future with a much scarcer supply.

Without the helium required to cool the magnets, patients will not be able to receive MRI scans for early and definitive diagnoses of neurological disorders, cancer, and a myriad of other serious health conditions. To keep providing these potentially life-saving scans while keeping our planet healthy, sustainable change is necessary.

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