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Gus Iversen, Editor in Chief | April 10, 2025
Cincinnati Children’s and GE HealthCare have launched a long-term collaboration aimed at advancing imaging technologies tailored specifically for pediatric care.
The partnership, structured as a Care Innovation Hub, brings together researchers, clinicians, and engineers from both organizations to jointly develop next-generation solutions in MR, CT, ultrasound, and molecular imaging.
The collaboration will focus on pediatric-specific imaging challenges, such as adapting equipment to a wider range of patient sizes and minimizing scan times to accommodate younger, more active patients. GE HealthCare, based in Chicago, and Cincinnati Children’s, which ranks among the top pediatric hospitals in the country, plan to leverage their combined expertise to bring new technologies from concept to clinical application.
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“This collaboration with GE HealthCare is an opportunity to increase our ability to impact and improve how children are imaged far beyond our own health system,” said Dr. Andrew Trout, director of clinical research in the radiology and medical imaging department at Cincinnati Children’s.
The program includes a number of targeted research tracks:
In MR, the teams plan to design child-sized high-density coil arrays and develop faster, motion-robust scanning techniques.
In ultrasound, joint teams will focus on enhancing pediatric liver imaging and incorporating early clinician feedback into AI-driven device development.
Molecular imaging research will explore PET and SPECT technologies, with an emphasis on optimizing image reconstruction and supporting treatment planning.
CT efforts will prioritize workflow automation and global dissemination of best practices for pediatric care.
“Rather than having to adapt techniques created for adults to pediatric use as is usually necessary, access to the latest technology at earlier stages of development will allow us to create pediatric-focused imaging technology from the beginning,” said Dr. Brian Coley, radiologist-in-chief at Cincinnati Children’s.
