Doctors take first-ever MRI images of live birth

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Hats off to a German woman who agreed to give birth in a magnetic-resonance imaging scanner at Berlin’s Charite Hospital.

She allowed doctors to take the first-ever MRI images of childbirth.

This new technology will allow doctors to study birth in greater detail and understand why a growing number of women end up having cesarean sections. In the United Stations, 30 percent of births end in a c-section.

Full Story: Doctors take first-ever MRI images of live birth – The San Francisco Chronicle