We Shrunk the MRI! 🚑🧠 The Axana System & Resonant Benchtop MRI | Smart Medicine Podcast

What if a life-saving stroke diagnosis could happen in the back of an ambulance? In this episode of Smart Medicine, Dr. Ali Fatemi sits down with medical physicist and entrepreneur Dr. Sergei Obruchkov to discuss the radical hardware innovations his companies are bringing to the MRI world.In this episode, we shine a spotlight on two game-changing products:🧲 The Axana System: We discuss his spin-off company's flagship product, Axana—a 30-kilo, fully portable head MRI. Dr. Obruchkov explains the incredible engineering behind it, including how they used AI to map stroke anatomy and borrowed tech from the oil and gas industry to remove heavy conventional gradients entirely. The goal? To put an Axana system in ambulances so we can detect time-critical "wake-up strokes" instantly.🏫 Resonant's 8-Kilo MRI: We also explore his company, Resonant, which builds tiny, 8-kilo benchtop MRI machines. Dr. Obruchkov shares his bold vision to put one of these systems in every high school to demystify medical imaging and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.If you love deep-tech, AI, and medical engineering, hit play to see how these unique products are changing the game! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and drop a comment below: Could a benchtop MRI have changed your high school science experience?