We have already teased you twice with some still images in earlier posts about the first birth that happened inside an MRI machine under real-time imaging, but only now has the actual movie been released. Accompanying a paper, which reveals a few additional details on the clinical rather than the technical side of things, the movie shows the accelerated real-time cinematic MRI series in the mid sagittal plane during the whole birth process. It starts when the mother starts performing expulsive efforts with the amniotic membranes still intact and it ends just before the fetus pops his head out in order to avoid exposure to MRI noise. Enjoy the movie!
Flashbacks: MRI Used to Visualize Live Birth; Paper Describing Details of First Birth Inside MRI Published
Article in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: Human birth observed in real-time open magnetic resonance imaging…