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LEGO scanner models help young patients through MRI procedure

Katherine Powell Apr 28, 2022

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…
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MRI model reaches 10,000 supporters

Katherine Powell Jan 5, 2021

MRI 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…
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Open MRI Lego model could help anxious patients

Katherine Powell Feb 21, 2019 0

Apollo 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…
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Lego helps staff explain treatment to children at Clatterbridge

LBT Nov 29, 2016 0

Paediatric 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…
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