Samantha By1, E. Brian Welch1, Houchun Harry Hu1, Rafael O'Halloran1, Laura Sacolick1, Carole Lazarus1, Hadrien Dyvorne1, Jonathan Rothberg1, Khan Siddiqui1, and Lorraine Cullen2
1Hyperfine, Guilford, CT, United States, 2Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, Wallingford, CT, United States
1Hyperfine, Guilford, CT, United States, 2Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, Wallingford, CT, United States
Portable, point-of-care MRI offers many new opportunities, such as scanning at the bedside or serial monitoring of a patient (i.e. daily or weekly). Six recovering stroke patients in a rehabilitation center received such exams.
Figure 4: FLAIR (a-d) and T2-W (e-h) imaging of a recovering patient with a right MCA syndrome with multiple infarcts. Four time points were imaged over the course of 19 days, where the far left column is time point 1, and the far right column shows time point 4. Stable T2-W/FLAIR hyperintensities (yellow arrow), indicating mild encephalomalacia, were observed at all time points. Right ventricular shunt catheter is present (blue arrow).
Figure 1: Portable, point-of-care MRI deployed in a rehabilitation center, as demonstrated through (a) a photograph of the device docked behind the patient’s bed and (b) a zoomed-in photograph of the device.
