BrainScope touts brain scanner white-paper results

Medical neurotechnology firm BrainScope is highlighting a white paper that suggests its BrainScope One electroencephalography-based technology has the potential to reduce unnecessary head CT scans by one-third in a hospital emergency department setting.

A team led by Dr. Rosanne Naunheim from the Washington University Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis compared 64 patients referred for head CT scans following the traditional referral pathway with use of the BrainScope One referral guideline. The researchers found that using the BrainScope One device could have led to a 33% reduction in head CT scanning in this patient group without any false-negative cases.