MRIs were never built for babies.
For the sickest newborns, reaching a scanner can mean leaving intensive care. What if the scanner came to the baby?
The story
Most MRI scanners sit in rooms built around adults, so a fragile newborn may have to travel down long corridors to reach one. Cincinnati Children's says that trip poses serious risks. Eyas Medical Imaging's Ascent3T is built only for babies up to 9 kg and is designed to live inside the NICU: virtually helium-free, no quench pipe, delivered by freight elevator, with a table that doubles as a transport bed.
Three things to know
Moving critically ill infants to distant imaging rooms carries real risk.
A 3 Tesla scanner sized for newborns can be installed inside the NICU.
It grew from more than 1,700 infant scans on prototypes at Cincinnati Children's, and received FDA 510(k) clearance in February 2026.
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