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December 18, 2024

The breakthrough making MRI scans quick, cheap and much more likely to save your life

Swedish startup Corsmed has secured $3.5m to commercialise its technology

Mimi Billing

4 min read

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans are due an update: they’re expensive, time-consuming, and therefore not used as often as they could be.

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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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