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Neuroimaging in emergency medicine often focuses on immediately ruling out or identifying a source of increased ICP from hemorrhage, stroke, hydrocephalus (enlargement of the ventricles), or cerebral mass effect (displacement of brain tissue by blood or tumor or following trauma). This is currently done in the ED using CT scanners, which are fast, relatively cheap, and easy to site compared with MRI. The addition of POC MRI would be helpful for assessment of neurological emergencies for which CT provides a poor depiction or for patient populations sensitive to the ionizing radiation used in CT.