New Low Cost Specialist Incubator for Transporting Infants to and from Imaging Modalities

An optional, adjustable, MR-compatible ventilator with a special access control panel is also available.

The results of a trial involving the incubator and published in the January 2014 online edition of the British Journal of Radiology stated, “Studies in eight neonatal patients produced high quality 1.5-T MRI images with low motion artefacts [...] Images were acquired using both rapid and high-resolution sequences, including three-dimensional volumes, proton spectra, and diffusion weighting [...] The incubator provides a safe, quiet environment for neonates during transport and imaging, at low cost.”

After the trial was completed, several hundred patients (an average of two infants per week) were successfully scanned using the Scan Pod at the United Kingdom Royal Hallamshire Hospital (Sheffield, UK) using the ScanPod.

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