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September 16, 2020 Bioscience

Study: Device can detect brain abnormalities

Hyperfine’s portable MRI can be rolled up to a patient’s bedside and produce a 3-D color image of a human brain within 10 minutes.
By Natalie Missakian

A study of 50 critically ill patients at Yale New Haven Hospital found a Guilford company’s portable MRI could successfully detect brain abnormalities at their bedside in the intensive care unit.

Results of the study were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Neurology on Sept. 8.

Patients in the study suffered from conditions that included stroke, hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, tumors and COVID-19 with mental altered status and were too ill to be transported to the traditional MRI suites, according to the paper.

They were scanned using the new Swoop MRI system developed by Guilford bioscience entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg’s Hyperfine Research Inc. Slightly bigger than a compact refrigerator, the machine plugs into a standard AC wall outlet and is operated through an iPad.

Hyperfine began marketing the machine commercially this summer after obtaining regulatory clearance in February.

Kevin N. Sheth, MD, head of the neuro intensive care unit at YNHH, was lead author of the study, which was conducted from October 2019 to May 2020.

“This experience demonstrates that low-field, portable MRI can be deployed successfully into intensive care settings,” the authors wrote. “This approach may hold promise for portable assessment of neurological injury in other scenarios, including the emergency department, mobile stroke units and resource-limited environments.”

Read the full study HERE.

Contact Natalie Missakian at news@newhavenbiz.com.

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