Portable MRI can help doctors save lives

Portable MRI can help doctors save lives

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1792 , Segment 2

Beethoven Variations, pMRI, Allergy Desensitization

Episode: Beethoven Variations, pMRI, Allergy Desensitization

  • Jul 6, 2022 6:00 am
  • 16:32 mins

MRI machines are massive and expensive, making them limited in their capabilities. You can't have one in an ambulance to make a life-saving determination in a medical emergency. But a company called Hyperfine Research and scientists at Yale have just created and deployed the first MRI machine that’s portable. Kevin Sheth helped develop it – he’s a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine. (Segment produced by Lysney Call)