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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by petra on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:00PM (#30209383)
It's better than nothing. Let's start with those situations, and slowly build a database proving or disproving this technology.
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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by jcims on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:06PM (#30209451)
>However, MRI accessibility is low and extremely inhomogeneous around the world. According to the 2020 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics, there are approximately 65,000 installations of MRI scanners worldwide (~7 per million inhabitants)

Given that my little podunk hospital in the midwest seems to have roughly 5x the worldwide average number of MRI machines, totally agree.

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Re:A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI s... by lostlogin on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:45PM (#30212899)
MRI is also a massive revenue generator. That's a key reason they buy them.
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