28.01.2019.
New Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment at MMA
Today, the Radiology Institute of the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade started using a modern magnetic resonance imaging equipment of the strength 1.5 tesla.
According to Minister Vulin, at this moment, some 1,300 military insured persons are waiting for the MRI examination, and owing to this new equipment, we can count on rather fast and significant shortening of the waiting list.
Head of Military Medical Academy Colonel Miroslav Vukosavljević MD, underlined that the new MRI would mean a lot, both for the military insured persons, where they would shorten the waiting lists which had piled up in very short time, and for other insured persons of the National Fund for Health Insurance and other who gravitate towards being treated at the MMA.
The MRI examination is considered to be an indispensable diagnostic method for obtaining precise data on patients’ state of health. Each year, around 3,000 patients are examined on the magnetic resonance imaging equipment. The new equipment of the strength of 1.5 tesla, apart from shorter duration of the very examination, possesses more advanced performances in relation to the previous one, since it enables the examination of abdomen, pelvis in the same act, prostate examination, heart examination and other organs.

