Rothberg Hyperfine launches portable MRI unit

Hyperfine Research, housed in Jonathan Rothberg’s Guilford-based 4Catalyzer health technology incubator, has announced that it has developed “the world’s first portable, low-cost magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system.”

The five-year-old startup said it will begin piloting its Hyperfine Portable POC (point of care) MRI device, which plugs into a wall outlet and works right at a patient’s bedside, in the neuro intensive care unit at Yale New Haven Hospital. more