It is crucial to protect our participants from undue risk while conducting research.
For human neuroimaging, many institutions require excluding pregnant individuals from
completing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for research to minimize potential risk.
This often entails mandatory urine pregnancy testing for all individuals assigned
female at birth who have started to menstruate. This restriction stemmed from early
concerns about fetal health from animal studies that have not been substantiated through
human research. Yet some institutions do not require this, and many researchers are
actively pursuing human fetal MRI.
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Publication history
Published online: August 21, 2022
Accepted:
August 14,
2022
Received:
August 11,
2022
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