Birth in an MRI

The mechanical factors that influence the progress of labor are of interest to obstetricians, but they are often difficult to investigate. In November 2010, a 24 year old gravida 2, para 2 woman at 37 5/7 weeks of gestation had given birth in an magnetic resonance imaging machine at the Department of Obstetrics of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG). She received an epidural and was transferred to the open MRI suite. In addition, the ce