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Re:Portable MRI Scans Patients for Signs of Stroke by queuebert on Friday March 07, 2025 @10:23PM (#43297212)
CT is not much faster than a quick T1 and T2 from a portable MRI these days. By the time you transport to the CT suite, set them up, run the scout, etc., you could have acquired the MR bedside.

Edit: To add some clarity, portable MR systems are low field, so that means the scans will be lower SNR and resolution, which are much faster to acquire. I think it would also rule out diffusion scans, since those require high gradients. MR acquisitions are also much faster nowadays due to compressed sensing and deep learning reconstructions.

Re:Portable MRI Scans Patients for Signs of Stroke by justlikereddit on Saturday March 08, 2025 @01:48PM (#43302438)
There's no portable bedside MR available though.

Even if you have an MR machine with a very low strength primary fields you'll still need to consider safety issues related to the gradients and coils.

Re:Portable MRI Scans Patients for Signs of Stroke by jmhmd on Saturday March 08, 2025 @03:03PM (#43303036)
Portable low field bedside MRI has been on the market in the US for a few years. See Hyperfine Swoop.