Resoundant, Inc.
Resoundant, Inc. is a medical technology company founded by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research and is located in Rochester, MN. Resoundant is dedicated to improving patient care and diagnosis accuracy by making Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) available around the world. MRE technology uses low frequency mechanical vibrations that harmlessly travel through a patient`s body. These waves are generated by a specially developed acoustic driver system that is synchronized with a standard MRI scanner. MRE is cleared by the FDA as an MR add-on technology. Currently, Resoundant MRE is installed in over 800 locations world-wide and is sold as an upgrade to MRI scanner manufactured by Philips, GE Healthcare and Siemens.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About us
The propagating waves travel faster through stiff tissue than through soft tissue, and a sophisticated computer algorithm works with the MRI image data to generate very accurate, quantitative measures of tissue stiffness that are displayed graphically. The result is a quantitative 3-D map of tissue stiffness in the targeted area of the patient’s body. Currently, MRE is being used clinically for the diagnosis liver fibrosis, but research into additional diagnostic capabilities for other areas of the body such as brain, muscle, breast, kidney, spine and the heart show great promise for many more clinical applications.
We call this technique
Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE).
MRE is a revolutionary imaging tool with the capability to noninvasively 'palpate by imaging' regions of the body that are beyond the reach of the physician’s hand. MRE is currently widely available for diagnosing liver fibrosis, a potentially serious complication that can result from conditions such as fatty liver disease, and chronic viral hepatitis. MRE helps patients and providers address diagnosis and monitoring liver diseases with a major global health burden. MRE is also a promising tool for detecting and helping plan treatment of tumors in many parts of the body and new highly-sensitive quantitative imaging biomarkers for characterizing tissue properties.Resoundant is based in Rochester, MN and was founded by Mayo Clinic to share this medical advance with the world. The technology, invented by dedicated Mayo Clinic physicians and researchers, exemplifies the mission of Mayo Clinic to advance medical knowledge and innovation. The main MRE research program at Mayo Clinic, led by Mayo Clinic Radiologist Richard Ehman, MD, has had continuous research funding from the National Institutes of Health since 1995.