Advanced imaging that reads the same every time.
STAGE is FDA-cleared advanced imaging software. A single scan delivers a complete, co-registered set of images and measured maps — including QSM and FGATIR — so clinicians read from better images and real numbers, not impressions.
Clarity standardized: the same images and the same measurements on any scanner, at any site, at every follow-up. Confidence elevated: decisions grounded in advanced images and data.
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510(k)-cleared, providing QSM and FGATIR
The first 510(k)-cleared clinical QSM software — cleared for clinical use, not a research-only tool bolted onto the reading workflow.
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One acquisition yields multiple qualitative and quantitative outputs
A single rapid multi-flip-angle, multi-echo GRE scan produces QSM, FGATIR, T1, PD and R2*/T2* maps, co-registered.
See STAGE Outputs →
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Vendor-agnostic across 1.5T and 3T
Works alongside Siemens, GE, Philips and Canon systems — the installed base a department already owns.
The technology →
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Built on peer-reviewed physics
The STAGE method is documented in the peer-reviewed literature, with 40+ papers behind the acquisition, reconstruction and output set.
Publications →
STAGE: Physics-based Quantitative MRI
Measured and reproducible
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Real numbers. Maps in physical units — susceptibility, relaxation, proton density.
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Standardized. Results hold across scanners, field strengths and years.
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Small structures resolve. Outputs enhance visibility of subcortical nuclei.
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Measured directly. Physics at the scanner, not inference after the scan.
Conventional MRI
Qualitative and inconsistent
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Relative brightness. Contrast shifts with scanner, sequence and settings.
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Inconsistent across sites and time. The same patient can read differently scanner to scanner, visit to visit.
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Small structures hide. Subcortical nuclei are difficult to identify.
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Late signal. Tissue composition changes before anatomy looks abnormal.
One platform, multiple clinical applications
DBS Planning
Supports visualization of deep gray matter structures for deep brain stimulation surgical planning.
TBI Reporting
Susceptibility-based outputs for visualization of microbleeds and vascular injury — being evaluated with clinical partners.
STAGE as an AI Layer
Every downstream model inherits the quality of its input — calibrated, co-registered maps for training and inference.
Pipeline
Areas in development or being explored with clinical partners — stroke and cerebral microbleeds, neuro-oncology, CNS disorders and pediatrics.
STAGE is built by Gradience Health (formerly SpinTech MRI). We develop physics-based software that brings advanced imaging to a growing range of clinical applications.