Researchers develop low-cost, portable brain imaging scanner (IMAGE)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Researchers develop low-cost, portable brain imaging scanner

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When it comes to brain scans for assessing head trauma, detecting brain cancer, and performing numerous other tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the best option, but MRI scanners are costly, require special infrastructure, and are immobile. Now a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a low-cost, compact, portable and low-power "head only" MRI scanner that could be mounted in an ambulance, wheeled into a patient's room, or put in small clinics or doctors' offices around the world. The advance is described in a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

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