We read with great interest the recent article of Brown and Hasso, 1 in which the authors
discuss the handling of incidental findings in neuroimaging research. In our institution …

Purpose To examine different protocols for handling incidental findings on brain research
MRIs, and provide a platform for establishing formal discussions of related ethical and policy …

Concern regarding incidental findings on brain MRI studies has been increasing with the
growing use of MRI as tool for scientific investigation. In this article, the authors provide an …

Brain imaging has revolutionized our ability to characterize brain structure and function.
Since the first use of magnetic resonance imaging in a live human subject in 1977, the use …

Neuroimaging–especially functional MR imaging (fMRI)–opens the door to non-invasively
map cortical processing and to understand how our brain works. fMRI evolved from basic …

Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is increasingly used both in
research and in clinical medicine, and scanner hardware and MRI sequences are …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Incidental findings are discovered in neuroimaging
research, ranging from trivial to life-threatening. We describe the prevalence and …

The question of how to handle incidental findings (IFs) has sparked a heated debate among
neuroimaging researchers and medical ethicists, a debate whose urgency stems largely …

MRI is increasingly used as a research tool with the inclusion of “normal” control subjects,
raising ethical issues when significant incidental abnormalities are found on research MRIs …

Objective: There is an ongoing debate about how to handle incidental findings (IF) detected
in healthy individuals who participate in research-driven magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …