Hospital installs ‘kitten scanner’ to ease children’s medical scan anxiety

The hospital is the first in the region to install the child-sized toy that allows young patients to “scan” their stuffed ...
Euro Weekly News

“A Day with Buddy” project helps children undergo MRI scans

Almeria hospital as their “A Day with Buddy” initiative benefited 36 paediatric patients. This humanisation project, promoted ...

LEGO Has Benefited More Than One Million Children By Donating LEGO MRI Scanners to Hospitals

The loud noises and enforced stillness of an MRI scan can be frightening for children, but a simple act of imagination has ...
Politifact

Good Enough to Be True: Lego donated model MRI scanners to comfort children

A Lego employee and physicians at a Danish hospital first developed a Lego model of a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machine, in 2015 to help children understand the procedure and feel ...
Wired

NHS virtual reality app helps take the fear and anxiety out of MRI scans

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 ...
The Next Web

Eye-tracking VR system helps children stay still during MRI scans

A new VR system that uses eye-tracking technology can calm children while they undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning. Developed by researchers at King’s College London, the method aims to ...
Fast Company

Full-body MRI scans are getting popular. A doctor weighs in on the pros and cons

Most of us are familiar with magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. The MRI is a noninvasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of internal structures in the human body, including the ...