Connecticut-based Hyperfine made waves earlier this year when it announced the arrival of what it calls the “world’s first” portable MRI scanner. Which brings about interesting questions: How does it work? Is it replacing traditional technology? And what has COVID-19 meant for mobile imaging?

The JAMA study is one of the first to quantify cuts in such care, authors claim, using data from nearly 7M commercially insured Americans in all 50 states. 

Loud sounds emitting from magnetic resonance machines can erode the patient experience, but Swiss experts may have found the fix. 

Experts from three prominent institutions hope their neuroimaging work will inform new interventions to address partisan discord. 

Inventor and lead author Robert Edelman, MD, compared the advancement to stargazing at night versus during the day. 

In one recent study, AB-MR pinpointed 13 additional cancer cases that DBT missed, Penn Medicine announced recently. 

The American College of Radiology recently raised concerns about this issue in comments submitted to the feds. 

Also, Sectra signs seven-year contract in the Netherlands, GE Healthcare announces an industry first, and Fujifilm expands a mammography-related partnership.