TWINSBURG, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Users of hi-tech equipment often must balance cutting edge technology advantages against reliability. Not so with Hitachi’s Echelon 1.5T, according to Jason Miller, MR Product Manager for Hitachi Medical Systems America. According to Miller, “While Echelon 1.5T incorporates many leading edge features including a high performance gradient system, new RF coils, and new RF and computer architecture, our users are finding it to be just as reliable as the open MR equipment we have marketed since 1989.”