Howard G. Smith MD, AM on Instagram: "MR Imaging Is Coming To The Bedside Magnetic resonance scanners are typically huge, heavy, and expensive machines. The typical commercial units occupy an entire room, weigh 6 to 13 tons, and cost north of $1 million. Now the Hyperfine company has received FDA clearance to further develop its Swoop scanner, a portable so-called low power unit that can be brought to a patient’s room or the operating room to image the head and brain. It could cost as little as $50-100,000 and weigh about 3,000 lbs, or one-quarter to one-eighth of a standard MR scanner. These little, portable scanners have lower powered magnets in the 0.05 Tesla range compared with the current 3 Tesla machines. The lower power yields a lower resolution image, but the power of artificial intelligence can beef up the image to yield clinically-valuable information in a timely fashion. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm7168 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/big-breakthrough-new-low-field-mri-safer-and-easier-2024a10009hb https://hyperfine.io/swoop/overview #MR #magneticresonance #lowpower #bedside"

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