Suggested Parameters for Clinical Infant Brain Imaging Using an Ultra-Low-Field Portable MRI System

Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can face barriers to access MRI of the brain including presence of assistive devices that are not MRI safe or conditional and staff resources needed to transport sick infants. An ultra-low-field (0.064T) portable MRI system has the ability to improve access by allowing infants to be scanned directly in the NICU eliminating the need to transport infants to the MRI scanner. However, the scanning parameters for ultra-low-field portable MRI were optimized for adult patient use and not for infants. This article describes an optimized scanning protocol for infant brain imaging by using ultra-low-field portable MRI.