MRI scanners promoted for Lao market
MRI scanners promoted for Lao market
The DDP Chaleunxup Co. Ltd is hoping to create a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) market in Laos to replace the use of X-ray in many cases after this technology has proved popular around the world.
The company cooperated with Hitachi Medical Co. Ltd yesterday to provide information and guidelines to Lao doctors on the use of MRI.
The technical information was provided by a special team of experts from Hitachi but based in Singapore and the doctors attending are from the five main hospitals in Vientiane and from Savannakhet, Champasak, Luang Prabang and Attapeu provinces.
The equipment regularly is used in many countries around the world but not in Laos yet, DDP Chaleunxup's Finance Division Deputy Director, Ms Keokhounma Sengaphone, explained.
Most of the Lao hospitals are using X-ray or CT scans at present for which the cost and standard of technology is lower, she said.
This is first seminar to introduce new radiology information to Laos' doctors and provide a basic knowledge on the use and function of MRI medical equipment.
She would like Laos to use this new technology because it provides much more information to the doctor than X-ray.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a scan that uses a magnetic field and pulses of radio wave energy to make pictures of organs and structures inside the body.
In many cases MRI gives different information about the structures in the body than can be seen with an X-ray, ultrasound, or computerised tomography (CT) scan.
MRI also may show up problems that cannot be seen with other imaging methods.
vientiane times
