Emerging ethical issues raised by highly portable MRI research in remote and resource-limited international settings.

ABSTRACT: Smaller, more affordable, and more portable MRI brain scanners offer exciting opportunities to address unmet research needs and long-standing health inequities in remote and resource-limited international settings. Field-based neuroimaging research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can improve local capacity to conduct both structural and functional neuroscience studies, expand knowledge of brain injury and neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, and ultimately improve the timeliness and quality of clinical diagnosis and treatment around the globe. Facilitating MRI research in remote settings can also diversify reference databases in neuroscience, improve understanding of brain development and degeneration across the lifespan in diverse populations, and help to create

SUBMITTER: Shen FX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8382487 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature