Ressonância magnética de corpo inteiro, projetada para mulheres

A ressonância magnética de corpo inteiro está ganhando popularidade, mas, segundo esta palestra, os exames foram desenvolvidos com base no corpo masculino e não visam as doenças que mais afetam as mulheres. A radiologista e física de ressonância magnética Rebecca Rakow-Penner descreve as lacunas dos exames atuais para mulheres. Ela defende a criação de uma ressonância de corpo inteiro, da cabeça aos pés, voltada especificamente para a paciente.

• A ressonância de corpo inteiro foi baseada no corpo masculino
• A palestrante aponta lacunas nos exames atuais para mulheres
• Apelo para criar exames voltados às mulheres

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