女性向けに設計された全身MRI

全身MRIは人気が高まっているものの、現在の検査は男性の身体を基準に設計されており、女性に多い疾患を十分に捉えていないと、放射線科医でMRI物理学者のRebecca Rakow-Penner博士は指摘します。講演では、女性の患者に焦点を当て、頭からつま先まで女性向けの全身MRIを構築すべきだと提案しています。本講演はTEDxSanDiegoSalonで行われ、TEDx Talksが公開しています。

• 全身MRIは人気が高まっているが、男性の身体を基準に設計されてきた
• 現在の検査では女性の疾患に対する対応が不十分だと指摘
• 女性に特化した全身MRIの構築を提案

Whole body MRI is exploding in popularity—but it was designed based on men's bodies, and not built to catch the diseases that matter most to women. Dr. Rakow-Penner, a radiologist and MRI physicist reveals the gap in today's scans for women. Her call to action: stop retrofitting women into a man's blueprint, and build whole body MRI—head to toe—specifically for the patient actually on the table. @womensimager https://womensimaginglab.com #health #Women #MRI #disease #UCSD #TEDxSanDiego #TEDx #MooresCancerResearch #scientist #Cancer #research Rebecca Rakow-Penner MD, PhD is tenured Associate Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering at University of California San Diego and a thought leader in women’s health. She has an undergraduate Engineering Sciences degree from Harvard, and master’s degree in Bioengineering from Caltech. Her PhD is in Biophysics from Stanford University where her research focused on breast MRI. She also received her MD from Stanford and then completed her radiology residency and women’s imaging fellowship at UCSD. She is a translational scientist and practicing radiologist in the breast and body imaging sections at UCSD. She is the Director of the Women’s Imaging Lab and Co-Director of the Center for Translational Imaging. Dr. Rakow-Penner has grant funding from NIH, industry, and private foundations for her ground-breaking research in breast, ovarian, and cervical cancer as well as benign female pelvis disease. Her team is working on AI approaches for the detection of female specific diseases. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx