*Corresponding author:
Monika Bekiesinska-Figatowska, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Institute of Mother and Child, 01-211 Warsaw, Poland, Kasprzaka 17aReceived: July 30, 2018; Published: August 06, 2018
DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.07.001539
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Introduction of MR-compatible incubators (INC) has revolutionized imaging preterm neonates and this fact has not been noted strongly enough in the medical literature so far. Built of non-magnetic materials, INC is equipped with gas cylinders, respirator, and pulse oximeter as well as head and body coils for imaging. Before era of INC premature newborns were deprived of possibility of MRI because they could not have been transported early in their lives to the MRI units and could not have been scanned in the unfriendly environment without the required temperature and humidity. INC has changed this situation and made MRI available to the youngest and sickest babies. In most cases it is brain that requires early assessment in preterm newborns, but body imaging is more and more demanded in INC in premature infants as well.
The coils from INC can also be used to study minor body parts in older children providing better signal-to-noise ratio than in “adult” coils. INC contributed significantly to scientific research on the development of prematurely born children and on the impact of the negative factors of prematurity on this development. The scant literature devoted to this subject increases thanks to these investigations.
Keywords: MR-compatible incubator; Neonate
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