STAGE
BY GRADIENCE HEALTH™
STAGE — STrategically Acquired Gradient Echo

STAGE is a rapid multi-flip-angle, multi-echo gradient-echo (GRE) acquisition that solves the underlying MR signal equations directly, turning one ten-to-fifteen-minute scan into a full set of calibrated parameter maps.

Physics-based
Values in physical units, not arbitrary signal intensity.
Vendor-agnostic
Runs on the 1.5T and 3T fleet a center already owns.
Clinically grounded
Built with academic and health-system partners, published in peer review.
HOW STAGE WORKS

Software that sits between the scanner and PACS.

It works with common scanner brands and magnet strengths — no new hardware and less than 10 minutes of processing time.

01
Scan once
A single scan captures the information required to run STAGE.
STAGE SOFTWARE · DOES THE WORK HERE
02
Measure
The software turns that signal into real measurements of brain tissue.
03
Build the images
It builds the familiar image types clinicians use — all perfectly aligned.
04
Deliver results
Results land in the hospital's normal image system (PACS), ready to read.

One rapid 3D scan. Conventional images and quantitative maps, co-registered.

A single gradient-echo acquisition — no separate quantitative sequence, no extra table time.

WHAT STAGE PRODUCES
WHAT STAGE PROVIDES
Better image quality
Sharper gray/white detail, less noise.
CLARITY
Small lesions, microbleeds and deep-brain targets stand out.
Images and quantitative maps
QSM · T1 · proton density · R2*/T2* · FGATIR · SWI · T1w
STANDARDIZED
Absolute values — comparable across scanners and over time.
Consistency
Vendor-agnostic; 1.5T and 3T. First 510(k)-cleared clinical QSM software.
CONFIDENCE ELEVATED
Advanced images for better clinical outcomes.
STAGE — PHYSICS-BASED QUANTITATIVE MRI

Solved from signal, not learned from examples

STAGE is physics, not AI. Every output is calculated directly from the acquired MR signal using established signal equations — nothing is learned, inferred or estimated by a trained model.

Direct physics. Outputs are calculated from raw signal equations, not reconstructed by a trained model.
Reproducible absolute values. The same input produces the same measurement, independent of scanner settings.
Verifiable ground truth. Every visual boundary corresponds to a calculated physical value at that coordinate.
Complementary to AI. Standardized outputs can feed upstream OEM denoising or downstream segmentation and detection models.
See what a single STAGE acquisition produces.
Explore the full output set, or talk to a specialist about fitting STAGE into an existing protocol.
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