Like every American academic healthcare institution, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a beehive of activity in three overlapping yet distinct areas of focus—patient care, physician education and medical research. 

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital—also known as The Neuro—of McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada, has installed the country’s first whole-body 7-Tesla MRI scanner.

Researchers have determined that increasing the number of core biopsy samples obtained using MRI-targeted transrectal ultrasound biopsy can lead to the detection of more clinically significant prostate cancers.

Siemens Healthineers announced Wednesday, Jan. 30, that its MAGNETOM Lumina 3T MRI scanner has received FDA clearance.

A ward boy working at a hospital in Pune, India—roughly three hours southwest of Mumbai—was arrested and charged for filming a female patient changing her clothes for an MRI scan, according to a report published online Jan. 27 by The Times of India. 

OSF Centers for Health in Peoria, Illinois, offers a wide-bore MRI that is four inches larger than a conventional scanner and includes a “Caring Suite” that makes it popular among patients.

Providing pediatric patients with MRI scans without anesthesia is an example of patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) in action, according to new research published in the Journal of Radiology Nursing. The authors found that this practice can lead to lower healthcare costs and shorter procedure times.

Technologist Apollo Exconde has an idea that he thinks can help claustrophobic patients overcome their fear of MRI scans—and it involves some familiar toys.