Tata Trust’s FISE develops low-cost portable MRI scanner to take health services to rural India

Friday, June 8, 2018

By Pratik Bhakta

Tata Trusts’ Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE) has developed a high-tech portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, designed to make MRI affordable and accessible for everyone. The product was developed within a period of two years by a group of engineers at Voxelgrids, which is incubated in the foundation.

In a statement to the press, FISE said that the 1.5 Tesla whole body MRI scanner can make MRI scans four times faster, compared to other scanners that are currently available in the market while consuming less power and being light weight hence easy to carry.

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Source: Economic Times (link opens in a new window)

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Health Care, Technology
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rural development, social enterprise