FerriScan: Information for Clinicians

FerriScan - the new non-invasive liver iron measurement test

FerriScan is the first MRI-based technology for the non-invasive measurement of liver iron concentration. FerriScan enables an efficient, easy and most importantly, accurate determination of a patients iron levels.

"With up to 13% of the adult population having elevated serum biochemical iron studies, resolving whether a patient has clinically relevant iron overload or not becomes a fairly commonplace issue. A new non-invasive diagnostic and measurement technique such as FerriScan will be of benefit to clinicians not only in determining the severity or presence of excessive iron stores, but in optimising treatment plans."

"Ferritin, transferrin saturation and HFE gene testing are useful screening tools but for assessment of iron loading and planning treatments, MRI and FerriScan are now the preferred tools. Only FerriScan can determine whether a ferritin of 500-1000 is iron overload requiring treatment or simply an elevation due to inflammation or some other non-iron related cause." - Professor John K Olynyk, Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine and Pharmacology (University of Western Australia), Fremantle Hospital Campus.

What does FerriScan offer you?

• Provision of a baseline measurement of the precise concentration and distribution of iron in the liver.
• Assistance in acquiring a definitive iron overload diagnosis.
• Ability to achieve optimised treatment that is matched to the exact level of iron loading to produce positive outcomes.

Regulatory Clearance

FerriScan has regulatory clearance in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Canada and the USA and is available as a commercial service. To view our clearances, click here.

Download Clinician brochures on how FerriScan can be used in the management of transfusional iron overload or how FerriScan can be used in the assessment of liver status in hereditary haemochromatosis.

To read more about the FerriScan (R2-MRI) technique published in BLOOD, download the BLOOD paper.

To find out more about the sensitivity and specificity of FerriScan, download the FerriScan Sensitivity and Specificity Sheet.

To have a concise clinical overview on FerriScan, download the FerriScan clinician guide to managing transfusional or haemochromatosis iron overload presentation.

Survey

To ensure we are able to offer the highest quality of service to you, we invite you to give feedback on the FerriScan service. Please take a few minutes to fill out the following survey and tell us what you like, dislike, or any other comments about your experience with FerriScan. Your feedback is much appreciated, and will greatly assist us in providing you with the best possible service.

Please click here to complete the electronic survey. Upon completion of the survey, your responses will be automatically sent to us.