The LEGO Foundation is to donate 600 LEGO MRI scanners to hospitals worldwide to help children cope with the uncertainty of having an MR scan. What started in 2015 as a passion project for LEGO chemical technician Erik Ullerlund Staehr and Odense University Hospital, Denmark, is now being scaled and piloted with new training material […]
Read MoreMRI lead radiographer Apollo Exconde at Guildford Diagnostic Imaging – Alliance Medical, Royal Surrey County Hospital, has thanked RAD Magazine readers for their support of his LEGO Ideas Open MRI project, in which he submitted a design for a model made of the famous building bricks. He hopes playing with the model of the MRI […]
Read MoreApollo Exconde meets a Lego friend. The Lego Open MRI idea was created with kids, anxious and plus-sized patients in mind. It was designed so that interaction with it can take place while explaining the procedure to the patient in the MRI unit or in referrer’s office. The mini figure of a Lego man will […]
Read MorePaediatric specialist radiographer Sarah Stead, patient Reece Holt and Legoland master model builder Alex Bidolak. In October, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust received a specially built Lego radiography machine from Legoland Discovery Centre Manchester, designed to help staff explain to children how radiotherapy works. Ten-year-old Reece Holt from Morecambe was treated with radiotherapy for a […]
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