ID | Gestational age (weeks, days)+sex | Clinical diagnosis | SOC imaging | Age at scan (days) | Weight during scan (kg) | SOC key findings | Portable MRI key findings |
1 | 27, 2 F | Achondroplasia | CT | 77 | 2.590 | Mild decrease in white matter volume Hypoplastic pons and cerebellum | Mild decrease in white matter volume |
C-MRI | 105 | 3.440 | Mild decrease in white matter volume Hypoplastic pons and cerebellum Prior small cerebellar haemorrhages | Mild decrease in white matter volume | |||
2 | 38, 4 M | HIE | C-MRI | 5 | 3.790 | Multifocal restricted diffusion: cortex, periventricular white matter and deep grey structures | Restricted diffusion: corpus callosum and periventricular white matter |
3 | 39, 2 F | Congenital heart defect | US | 1 | 3.14 | Normal | Normal |
4 | 24, 0 F | Intraventricular haemorrhage | US | 93 | 2.98 | Stable prior right grade 3 and left grade 4 IVH | Prior left greater than right IVH likely left grade 4 and right grade 3 No new bleed |
US | 99 | 3.030 | Stable prior right grade 3 and left grade 4 IVH | Stable ventriculomegaly from prior IVH No new bleed | |||
C-MRI | 108 | 3.350 | Not Applicable Scan aborted due to motion | ||||
5 | 38, 2 M | Seizures and intracranial haemorrhage | C-MRI | 5 | 3.928 | Right temporal lobe and subpial haemorrhage | Right temporal lobe and subpial haemorrhage |
6 | 40, 0 M | Congenital heart defect | C-MRI | 4 | 2.990 | Normal | Normal |
7 | 28, 1 F | Intraventricular haemorrhage | US | 88 | 2.735 | Evolving bilateral intraventricular haemorrhage Stable ventriculomegaly | Prior left greater than right IVH likely left and right grade 3 No new bleed Right shunt in place |
US | 95 | 2.94 | Evolving bilateral intraventricular haemorrhage Stable ventriculomegaly | Similar hydrocephalus Right shunt in place | |||
8 | 37, 0 M | Myelomeningocele | US | 6 | 2.880 | Mild prominence of the lateral and third ventricles and Chiari II Subsequent MRI demonstrated no Chiari* | Mild hydrocephalus No Chiari |
9 | 40, 3 M | Congenital heart defect | C-MRI | 2 | 3.5 | Small foci of restricted diffusion: right periventricular white matter | Normal |
10 | 37, 5 M | Congenital heart defect | C-MRI | 3 | 2.7 | Normal | Normal |
11 | 38, 3 F | Transient tachypnoea of the newborn with possible seizures | C-MRI | 3 | 3.485 | Normal | Normal |
12 | 39, 6 F | Neonatal stroke causing seizures | C-MRI | 4 | 3.052 | Multifocal restricted diffusion: left parietal and occipital lobes and smaller foci in the left periventricular white matter, basal ganglia and midbrain | Large area of restricted diffusion in left posterior frontal, parietal and occipital lobes |
13 | 28, 0 M | Myofibromatosis | US, CT, C-MRI | 122 | 4.235 | Large right supratentorial brain tumour | Complex large right supratentorial haemorrhage |
14 | 36, 0 F | HIE | C-MRI | 4 | 2.00 | Normal | Normal |
Bold indicates major discrepancies between SOC imaging and portable MRI.
*Note that in patients 2, 5, 6 and 9–12 also had head ultrasounds during their hospital course, but these ultrasounds were not within 24 hours of the portable MRI examination.
C-MRI, conventional MRI; F, female; HIE, hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy; IVH, intraventricular haemorrhage; M, male; SOC, standard of care; US, ultrasound.