Fig 1.
Flow of a patient MRI examination.
Table 1.
Wait times for MRI examinations involving each coil type.
Fig 2.
Simulation architecture.
Fig 3.
Baseline simulation model for MRI examinations.
Fig 4.
Baseline model of the use of MRI scanners for patient examinations.
Fig 5.
Proposed model of the use of MRI scanners for patient examinations.
Table 2.
Results of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test of validation indicators between the baseline model and real data.
Table 3.
Results obtained in the first experimental phase of the proposed model (N = 2,499).
Table 4.
Number of coil changes for each MRI scanner.
Fig 6.
Proportion of coil type used for each MRI scanner in the session time in the proposed model.
Table 5.
Simulation results for the proposed model.
Table 6.
Reductions in patient wait time for MRI examinations involving four coil types when three additional patients are examined per day.