MRI scanners are always confined to specially built rooms to accommodate the massive components of these scanners.
However, this is about to change altogether as a New York-based company called ‘Hyperfine’ has acquired 501(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the world’s first-ever portable MRI scanner. Hyperfine is an initiative of a Pakistani-American Radiologist, Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, and Healthcare professional, Dr. Khan Siddiqui.
How does the portable scanner works? Hyperfine’s MRI scanner can be plugged into a standard wall outlet and used in an instant. The portable MRI scanner can be operated from a tablet and the images of a scan can be viewed on a phone along with being saved on to cloud storage. Read more from Propergaanda: Umar Akmal pleads guilty to meeting with a bookie before PSL 2020