GE Healthcare and Mayo Clinic have won a $5.7 million federal grant to develop a lower-cost, head-only MRI scanner that could handle 25-30 percent of MRI imaging needs, according to a report by DOTmed News.
A smaller, less expensive design would make MRI scanners accessible to millions more people in smaller facilities in remote and rural settings or for military applications, GE said.
The five-year grant was awarded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, parts of the National Institutes of Health.
Read the DOTMed News report on MRI scanners.
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