A hospital hopes the new artwork will reduce anxiety and improve the success rate of scans.
A leading hospital said new, nature-inspired artwork on an MRI scanner and walls would help to save lives by making patients calmer.
He said: "Ensuring a patient completes their scan first time around can literally save hundreds of pounds, thousands in some cases.Radiographer Ilse Patterson said the new scanner was light, bigger and had "lovely pictures"It was funded by Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust , which also installed two £30,000 audio-visual systems to enable patients to listen to music and watch videos during scans.
Ilse Patterson, lead R&D MRI Radiographer at Addenbrooke’s, said the artwork "definitely changes the mood for the patients".
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