The loud noises and enforced stillness of an MRI scan can be frightening for children, but a simple act of imagination has helped change that experience. LEGO designer Erik Ullerlund Staehr created a ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in MRIs.

A Lego employee and physicians at a Danish hospital first developed a Lego model of a magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, machine, in 2015 to help children understand the procedure and feel ...

Who? Children from birth to 3 years and 11 months. What? MRI scans, 50-60 minutes. Is it safe? MRI is safe and painless. Why? This research study aims to understand the growing brain of young children ...

Jonathan Ashmore, a resident physicist at King’s College Hospital, keeps a pair of sound-cancelling headphones on his desk. He dons them every time a very young patient arrives at the MRI scanner in ...