The device is currently being tested on healthy volunteers, but could be used clinically within two years, the team predicts. Photograph: Bob Beverly

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02/16/2017

Portable brain-scanning helmet could be future for rapid brain injury assessments

BY:Hannah Devlin, The Guardian

Summary: BRAIN awardee Dr. Julie Brefczynski-Lewis and co-workers engineered a wearable positron emission tomography (PET) scanner that is both portable and able to image activity of the human brain in motion.

Link to another website: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/16/portable-brain-scanning-helmet-could-be-future-for-rapid-brain-injury-assessments