A Portable MRI Scanner
May 23, 2023 | Terry Sharrer

MRI for all
“The cylindrical machine stands chest high and could be the brooding older brother of R2D2, the Star Wars robot. One of the researchers carefully guides the 630-kilogram self-propelled scanner up to the head of the bed, steering it with a joystick. Lifting the man by his bed sheet, the researchers help him ease his head into the Swoop—a portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner made by a company called Hyperfine.” MORE
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