A Lego employee and physicians at a Danish hospital first developed a Lego model of a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machine, in 2015 to help children understand the procedure and feel ...

Philips has integrated animated Disney characters and stories into MRI machines to make imaging scans more comforting and engaging for children. Through the Philips Ambient Experience, the medtech ...

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, ...

When 14-year-old Sam Lane figured he had cancer before it was officially diagnosed, the news hurt all the same. It was a rare form of brain and spine cancer that had him run through the gauntlet of ...

Dr. Atul Gupta, Philips' chief medical officer of diagnosis and treatment, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the company's announcement on Thursday that it has partnered with Disney to create an ...

MRI scans can be fear-inducing, especially for children. So now hospitals can bet on some Disney magic to take away at least some of their worries: Mickey and Minnie Mouse; Buzz and Woody; Marvel ...

Disney has collaborated with Dutch health-tech multinational Philips to create themed MRI scanners for children undergoing imaging procedures. The scanners, which launched this week in the U.S. and ...

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 ...

Royal Philips and The Walt Disney Company announced that a variety of Disney animated characters and stories are being incorporated directly into Philips Ambient Experience for MRI at medical ...

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 ...