NOUS Imaging closes $6.6 million for its brain MRI software solution to eliminate patient safety risks and save billions of dollars in wasted MRI scan costs
Summary
Enter NOUS Imaging, a St. Louis-based tech startup that has created a software-based biofeedback solution, called Framewise Integrated Real-Time MRI Monitoring (FIRMM), for acquiring better brain MR exams and eliminate safety risks and billions of dollars in wasted costs. Co-founded in 2019 by Nico Dosenbach, NOUS Imaging is solving the problem of patient motion in brain MRI exams; to insure neurological research, diagnosis and treatment can be performed with the most accuracy, the most economy, and with minimal sedation for children and compromised adults. “The software aims to eliminate patient safety risks and save billions of dollars in wasted healthcare costs,” said Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD, co-founder of NOUS Imaging and an Assistant Professor of neurology and radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. While anesthesia addresses the motion problem, the procedure poses acute and long-term risks such as cognitive dysfunction and adds costs. “We hope that with the addition of GE capability we can add to our existing number of FIRMM users,” said Todd Deckard, Director of Engineering.