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First-ever MRI of baby at moment of birth

LONDON: German doctors claim to have made a medical breakthrough by capturing live MRI scan images of a baby at the moment of birth,which may provide new insights into the process of delivery and allow future lives to be saved. The pictures were taken after a German mother agreed to give birth inside a magnetic-resonance imaging MRI scan machine,the Daily Mail reported. Gynaecologist Ernst Beinder at Berlins Charité Hospital said the birth proceeded normally,and the machine could film all the movements and processes that went on inside the womb.