The unique Paramed Open Upright MRI scanner was used in a prestigious cooperation between the AECC University College of Bournemouth (UK) and the King’s College University of London for a research commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) on a specific “skinswit” which aims to mitigate the spinal elongation and also some of the musculoskeletal deconditioning that occurs to astronauts during space flight. Thanks to the possibility to acquire MR images in upright and multi position, researchers from the two important Institutes, can have important indications to test a solution to the problem of microgravity’s effects on the back.
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Penny Gowland – Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre – Nottingham University
Open scanners give a whole new dimension to MRI, which [...]
Alan Breen DC, PhD Professor of MSK Healthcare – AECC University College – Bournemouth (UK)
MROpen can be used both to study the service uses [...]
Patient – Innovative MRI – Orlando (USA)
“.. I have been in many scanners in my life [...]
Patient – Innovative MRI – Pensacola (USA)
“As a claustrophobic patient who even needed Valium to use [...]
Patient – Birmingham Upright MRI Centre (UK)
“I am claustrophobic, and this is the first time I’ve [...]
Patient – Leeds Upright MRI Centre (UK)
“I had a bad experience elsewhere but this was stress [...]
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