Champaign Imaging wants to make MRI easier for the most important patients. Young Children.
The noisy environment in an MRI scanner can be stressful, especially for children. Loud, abrupt sounds trigger children to flinch reactively during the MRI scanning process. And unfortunately, movement is the enemy of MRI scanning: It severely degrades the essential collection of data from which meaningful MRI images are created.
The Facts
Pediatric MRI neuroimaging has motion-related artifacts in the images that render them unusable: 38% up to age 4 [1]. Re-scans are time-consuming and costly – potentially up to $300,000/MRI machine per year [2].
The challenge is simple to state, but demands a technological leap forward: Make neurological MRIs.
1. QUIETER 2. MOVEMENT TOLERANT And do BOTH in an integrated efficient system.
Champaign Imaging is focused on the specific technologies to target critical neuro MRI scanning success for children. Young children are the toughest patients to image – and patients often in great need of meaningful diagnostic results.References
- Jaimes C, Robson CD, Machado-Rivas F, Yang E, Mahan K, Bixby SD, Robertson RL. Success of Nonsedated Neuroradiologic MRI in Children 1-7 Years Old. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2021 May;216(5):1370-1377. doi: 10.2214/AJR.20.23654. Epub 2020 Aug 12. PMID: 32783551.
- Slipsager, J.M., Glimberg, S.L., Søgaard, J., Paulsen, R.R., Johannesen, H.H., Martens, P.C., Seth, A., Marner, L., Henriksen, O.M., Olesen, O.V. and Højgaard, L. (2020), Quantifying the Financial Savings of Motion Correction in Brain MRI: A Model-Based Estimate of the Costs Arising From Patient Head Motion and Potential Savings From Implementation of Motion Correction. J Magn Reson Imaging, 52: 731-738. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.27112
The GenNext NP™ Pediatric MRI System integrates a quieter sequencing and innovative motion correction imaging software within a tailored head-only MRI coil: GenNext NP MRI System is designed specifically for pediatric neuroimaging tasks.
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