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SMI Imaging Center, San Diego installs its first Patent Pending MRI Room Alert

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SMI Imaging Center, San Diego installs its first Patent Pending MRI Room Alert

San Diego, Jan 2023 – Sound Imaging, a leading MRI product development firm has installed its new patent-pending voice-activated MRI Room Alert System at SMI Imaging Center, San Diego. Developed in conjunction with leading MRI safety experts, the MRI Room Alert seeks to increase safety, reduce liability, and improve emergency response time.

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“ We are a dedicated MRI Center and due to our focus on MRI safety is our utmost concern. I now feel much more confident when someone is in the MRI, anybody is in the MRI that we will be alerted to potential or actual safety issues.” 

“Gerardo “Lalo” Verdugo R.T (R) (CRT) (ARRT), SMI Center manager”

The MRI Room Alert is a voice-activated device that monitors the MRI room constantly. When unique keywords are spoken, a battery of alert activities takes place.  These alerts can be used to call, text, email, and/or sonic to announce a safety issue in the MRI room – a room that can turn deadly quickly.  The voice-activated feature is unique in that it not only works in the MRI room environment if one can reach the device but also can be activated if someone is stuck to the magnet. 

MRI Room Alert features:

  • Notify/Alert user-designated in-house personnel in emergency situations through audible alerts, outbound phone calls, and/or emails/texts from the Base unit. These emergencies include:
    * Patients experiencing serious or life-threatening medical emergencies.
    * Assistance required for malfunctioning equipment.
  • Ability to call one person and/or email and text up to six people with predefined customizable messages.
  • Notify/Alert during a quench while in the room.
  • Obtain help by pressing a button or simply saying “Call 9-1-1” twice. Regardless of the method chosen, help will be dispatched promptly.
  • Instantly view the MRI Room on your mobile phone with an optional remote (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • Audio calls and messages are initiated when motion is detected in the MRI suite (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • Gain remote video access to see what is causing the alert (MRI Room Alert Plus).
  • And many more features.

*Disclaimer, all user-defined phone numbers that are alerted by the MRI Room Alert should only be to qualified MRI safety-trained individuals that fit the ACR’s description of either Level 1 or Level 2 MR personnel. 

About Sound Imaging

Sound Imaging, Inc., is a leading designer and manufacturer of MRI products. Since its founding in 1996, the San Diego-based company has engineered a wide variety of imaging products that create a more comfortable patient experience.  Sound Imaging provides a low-price guarantee on every item we sell.



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Ground-breaking New MRI Room Alert for Healthcare’s Most Dangerous Room.

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SAN DIEGO, CA — December 2021 — Sound Imaging, a leading MRI product development firm, has released a first-of-a-kind, patent-pending voice-activated MRI Room Alert System. Developed in conjunction with leading MRI safety experts, the MRI Room Alert seeks to increase safety, reduce liability, and improve emergency response time. MRI is the single most dangerous room in a healthcare facility and according to the FDA MRI, related incidents are on the rise! as reported by Gilk Radiology Consultants

“…Reported MRI adverse events are growing at rates between 2x and 4x the rate of growth of MRI procedure volume.”

With this data in mind, likely every patient care room in your facility has an emergency call button to get help, so why would the most dangerous room in your facility not have one? “This new product gives anyone working in the MRI peace of mind because it is very intuitive in the event that there is an emergency,” said Marketing Director Christopher Chang

For this reason, The MRI Room Alert was developed after talking to countless MRI Technologists and MRI Safety Officers who mentioned they needed a product that would allow them to alert MRI safety-trained personnel to help in the event of an accident.

The testimonials so far have been extremely positive. Gerardo “Lalo” Verdugo R.T (R) (CRT) (ARRT) from the prominent San Diego SMI Center was very positive in his time with the MRI Room Alert,

“Our MRI techs frequently work alone where help is possible without immediate access, now they and our patients have the ultimate peace of mind. The MRI Room Alert serves so many crucial, as well as convenient functions, I don’t know how we kept our patients and employees safe without it.”

While Mitch Cardinal RT (R)(MR)MRSO(MRSC), a distinguished MRSO from Indiana had this to say,

 “As a registered MR Safety Officer, I believe this product is a great way for technologists to get timely help, from other radiology technologists, who are also MRI safety trained individuals. As most MRI technologists know things can go badly very quickly in MRI”

Features of the MRI Room Alert include:

  • Ability to notify qualified personnel when a patient has a medical emergency (such as a fall requiring assistance).*
  • Ability to call out during a quench while in the room.*
  • Ability to sequentially call, text, and email multiple contacts.*
  • Ability to call qualified personnel for a emergency alert.*
  • Ability to have multiple Room Alert Remote connect to a single Base Station for large MRI rooms.
  • Instant view of MRI Room on your mobile phone with an Optional remote.
  • And many more features

About Sound Imaging

Sound Imaging, Inc., is a leading designer and manufacturer of MRI products. Since its founding in 1996, the San Diego-based company has engineered a wide variety of imaging products that create a more comfortable patient experience.  Sound Imaging provides a low-price guarantee on all of its products or service.

*disclaimer, all user-defined phone numbers that are alerted by the MRI Room Alert should only be to qualified MRI safety-trained individuals that fit the ACR’s description of either Level 1 or Level 2 MR personnel.