New York: MRI scans could now help in early detection of risk of Multiple Sclerosis or MS in kids. This can be done much before the symptoms of this disease begin to appear. As a result, the disease ...

When researchers in Dalhousie's NeuroCognitive Imaging Lab (NCIL) designed a huge, two-year reading comprehension study involving approximately 100 children from grades two and three, they faced a ...

Giving children a virtual/augmented (mixed) reality play set to use ahead of an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan seems to ease both their and their parents' anxieties about this procedure, ...

Jonathan Ashmore, a resident physicist at King’s College Hospital, keeps a pair of sound-cancelling headphones on his desk. He dons them every time a very young patient arrives at the MRI scanner in ...

Paul Alebrande, a third-year student at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is working to bring Lego MRI kits to the N.C.

Children undergoing stressful MRI scans could soon be comforted by familiar Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Marvel superheroes and Disney Princesses under a new global partnership announced ...

With a new MRI technique that shows both heart tissue and blood flow simultaneously, physicians can see where heart defects occur and precisely plan to repair them, according to new research.

Philips Ambient Experience for MRI with Disney stories and characters Disney themes incorporated into Philips Ambient Experience for MRI Disney themes incorporated into Philips Ambient Experience for ...

A study of 33 children's hospitals has found that use of computed tomography (CT) for the 10 most common diagnostic groups in children decreased from 2004 to 2012. Meanwhile, rates for magnetic ...

Royal Philips and The Walt Disney Company announced that a variety of Disney animated characters and stories are being incorporated directly into Philips Ambient Experience for MRI at medical ...

Not many college students can say they designed and built a functioning piece of hospital equipment, but a few soon-to-be grads on Vancouver Island have done just that. The group of Camosun College ...