Portable MRI can help doctors save lives

Portable MRI can help doctors save livesTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1792, Segment 2

Jul 6, 2022 • 17m

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)

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