Clinicians have been able to show on the basis of a large sample, that it is possible to examine children’s heads in the MRI scanner without general anesthesia or other medical sedation. In many cases it was sufficient to prepare the young patients for the examination in an age-appropriate manner in order to take away their fear of the tube. And the results speak for themselves: of the 2461 image sequences recorded with 326 patients, the participating radiologists classified 97 percent as “diagnostically relevant.”