将MRI带到低收入和中等收入国家:方向,挑战和潜在的解决方案
Sanjana Murali1, Hao Ding1, Fope Adedeji2
1School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
NMR in biomedicine
|July 4, 2023
概括
由于技术,经济和社会障碍,低收入和中等收入国家 (LMICs) 对磁共振成像 (MRI) 的获取有限. 本文提出了一个框架,并探讨了改善全球MRI可访问性的解决方案.
科学领域:
- 医学成像技术 医学成像技术
- 全球卫生平等全球卫生平等
背景情况:
- 全球磁共振成像 (MRI) 的使用在低收入和中等收入国家 (LMICs) 显著受到限制.
- 技术,经济和社会因素导致这种差异,尽管MRI技术的进步.
- 在LMICs中疾病流行病学的变化强调了对可访问的MRI的迫切需要.
研究的目的:
- 探索阻碍LMICsMRI访问的持续挑战.
- 建立一个框架,开发针对LMIC环境的MRI解决方案.
- 确定和加强改善全球MRI可访问性的战略.
主要方法:
- 审查目前的MRI技术的局限性和LMICs的可访问性障碍.
- 为成本效益高,可持续的MRI开发制定框架.
- 分析现有解决方案,如电波放射学,人工智能和教育.
主要成果:
- 确定了MRI在LMICs采用的关键技术,经济和社会障碍.
- 提出了一个重点关注成本效益组件,地方整合和可持续性的框架.
- 突出了对远程放射学,人工智能和教育策略的潜在改进.
结论:
- 解决全球MRI差异需要采用多面性方法,考虑低低收入国家 (LMIC) 面临的具体挑战.
- 整合成本效益,当地基础设施和可持续实践的框架至关重要.
- 完善当前的解决方案可以显著提高MRI可访问性,并影响LMICs的健康结果.
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