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)