It was a few years ago that the agency kept in place roadblocks to limit such exams for patients with abandoned leads for their cardiac implantable devices. 

"If successful, prostate MRI will be able to join mammography and LDCT of the thorax as an imaging screening test that saves lives," experts wrote in JAMA. 

Hyperfine said its new deep-learning software can aid in measuring brain structure and pathology in images obtained by its Swoop product. 

Sherwin Hall, 27, was reportedly told that scanners were reserved for “urgent interventions,” with radiology services slowed down due to the pandemic. 

The once-promising practice managed 16 or so locations across four markets at its height and had considered expanding to as many as 70, offering MR scans for a $600 flat fee.

Connecticut-based Hyperfine made waves earlier this year when it announced the arrival of what it calls the “world’s first” portable MRI scanner. Which brings about interesting questions: How does it work? Is it replacing traditional technology? And what has COVID-19 meant for mobile imaging?

The JAMA study is one of the first to quantify cuts in such care, authors claim, using data from nearly 7M commercially insured Americans in all 50 states. 

Loud sounds emitting from magnetic resonance machines can erode the patient experience, but Swiss experts may have found the fix.