Our mission
Make imaging continuous, and make it come to the patient.
Medicine measures almost everything continuously. Heart rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, glucose. Anatomy is the exception, and it is the exception for logistical reasons, not clinical ones. We want to close that gap.
The gap
A monitor updates every second. A scan updates every few days.
A patient in an intensive care unit is surrounded by instruments that sample continuously and alarm on change. The one thing nobody watches continuously is the structure of the organ that is actually failing.
Not because it would not help. Because getting the picture means unplugging the patient from all of those instruments, moving them through a building, and putting them inside a machine that costs more than the room they came from.
Every part of that sentence is a logistics problem. Ultra-low-field physics, permanent magnets, and learned reconstruction have advanced far enough that the logistics problem is now the binding constraint, not the imaging.
What we hold to
Three commitments that decide our arguments for us.
The patient is never the thing that moves
Any design choice that ends with a sick person being transported, repositioned, or disconnected has failed the brief. If the system cannot work around the patient as they lie, it is the wrong system.
A scan is a data point, not a verdict
We optimize for consistency over peak image quality. A modest image you can trust to compare against yesterday is worth more to a care team than a beautiful one they will only ever see once.
Evidence comes before the claim
Ultra-low-field imaging attracts overstatement. We would rather publish a narrow result we can defend than describe a capability we have not measured. Nothing on this site is a demonstrated clinical finding.
The wider goal
Imaging that a small hospital can afford to leave running.
A conventional MRI needs a reinforced suite, a cryogen supply, a shielded enclosure, a dedicated technologist, and a schedule dense enough to justify all of it. That economic structure is the reason so many communities, and most of the world, have no practical access to MRI at all.
A passive magnet array in a bed inverts that structure. No cryogens to replenish, no suite to build, no transport to coordinate, and no reason the marginal scan has to be rationed. If it works, the same argument that makes it useful in a Chicago intensive care unit makes it useful in a district hospital with no imaging department.
That is the version of this we are actually aiming at. The critical care use case is where the value is clearest and where we will earn the right to keep going.
What success looks like
The scan nobody had to ask for.
- A neurosurgeon checks the overnight trend on a post-operative patient before rounds, the way they already check labs
- A transport-related adverse event becomes a rare thing rather than an accepted cost of imaging
- Recovery is measured in a quantitative series instead of two scans months apart
- A hospital that could never justify an MRI suite can still image the patients in its beds
Join in
This only works with people who have done it before.
We are looking for imaging physicists, hardware engineers, clinical collaborators, and investors who are comfortable with a hardware timeline. If the premise interests you, start a conversation.