An MRI system at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital features a cable car theme.
SHARE GE Healthcare industrial designers Erik Kemper (left) and Doug Dietz helped develop the idea of transforming the often-frightening process of MRI and CT scans into an adventure for children.
That's what computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography — commonly known as CT, MRI and PET scans — entail.
Children often told the designers at GE Healthcare that the bore of the machine was the scariest part of the room.
"One of our designers said it looks like everything your mother told you stay away from," said Erik Kemper, also a designer.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh had to sedate almost every child younger than 9 who needed an MRI scan, Kapsin said, and more than 80% of the children who needed a CT scan.
An MRI scan typically lasts more than 30 minutes, a CT scan about 10 minutes. »
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