Philips and Disney worked together to develop pediatric MRI scan technology to reduce stress and improve image quality and ...

A new miniature replica of an MRI machine which helps to ease children's anxiety ahead of scans by testing it on different ...

Children often require sedation to conduct MRI scans, but one SoCal hospital is using Disney magic to make scans less ...

Disney stories and characters are being integrated into Philips Ambient Experience for MRI to support children undergoing ...

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, ...

Calderdale Royal Hospital says the technology helps children remain calm inside the scanner.

One of the ongoing issues with magnetic resonance imaging is that it's often a problematic exam to conduct on pediatric patients. Such patients have to hold completely still for an extended period of ...

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 machines use characters like Mickey Mouse, Marvel heroes, and Star Wars favorites to help calm children during scans. A six-hospital study found the technology cut scan disruptions by 63% and ...

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 ...