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Mass General team creates portable, low-cost brain MRI scanner – Health Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have developed a new portable, low-cost modality for imaging brain injuries.
The Boston team detailed its low-power, head only MRI scanner Monday in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Tested on a handful of healthy participants, the scanner produced three-dimensional brain images within 10 minutes, on average.
“Although MRI is the premier imaging modality for brain imaging, the purchase and installation of traditional high-field MRI scanners can be prohibitively…
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