Innovere Innovision In-Bore MRI Infotainment System

Innovere’s Innovision is an in-bore MRI infotainment system designed to reduce patient anxiety by bringing video, audio, and patient-facing information directly into the scanning environment without compromising MRI compatibility.

The Challenge:

Innovere needed to turn an ambitious patient-experience concept into a manufacturable in-bore MRI system for deployment with a global healthcare OEM. The objective was not only to reduce anxiety, soften the sense of confinement, and create a more engaging MRI experience. It was to do so in a form that could actually be engineered, tooled, sourced, assembled, and built to the required quality standard.

That made the challenge broader than product styling or mechanical packaging. The system had to perform inside one of the most constrained environments in medical hardware, where usability, safety, and imaging compatibility were tightly coupled. Every decision carried implications for patient comfort, structural behavior, installation, and overall system integrity.

The physical constraints were severe. The user-facing display and audio system needed to create a credible in-bore experience without interfering with the MRI environment. The assembly had to mount to an extremely limited rail interface, support a cantilevered load, and behave safely in collision scenarios. At the same time, the product had to be resolved into something buildable across a large mix of components, materials, tools, fixtures, and suppliers.

This was not a single design problem. It was a product realization problem spanning human factors, MRI compatibility, structural support, fail-safe behavior, and manufacturing execution.

The Approach:

Inertia approached Innovision as an integrated electromechanical system, rather than a display mount solved in isolation. The work combined industrial design, UI and UX design, workflow analysis, prototyping, usability testing, mechanical engineering, packaging, tooling, and manufacturing support in one coordinated path.

The first task was to define a system architecture that could support the intended patient experience while respecting the physical and technical boundaries of the MRI environment. That meant separating the user-facing experience from the electronics in a way that protected imaging performance, then resolving the implications for support geometry, installation, and structural behavior around the MRI table.

From there, the team engineered a custom rail-mount system around the only viable attachment feature available: a 3 mm lip on the table rails. Instead of treating that as a downstream nuisance, it became a governing design constraint. The support structure was developed specifically to manage the cantilevered load while remaining compatible with the existing setup.

Safety behavior was handled with the same systems logic. Because collision could not be treated as an exception, the personal patient display was designed to deflect upward in a fail-safe event. When that exposed interference risk with the mirror, the mirror geometry was reworked into a form that nested into the display itself.

On the user side, the experience was shaped around the actual discomforts of MRI exams: confinement, noise, boredom, and anxiety. Innovision addressed those through in-bore video, patient-facing scan information, and audio delivered through memory-foam pillows that reduced scan noise while preserving entertainment and technologist communication.

The display also helped make the bore feel visually larger, reducing claustrophobic response and improving overall patient comfort.

The Outcome:

The result was a coherent in-bore MRI infotainment system that translated a patient-comfort concept into a manufacturable product architecture.

At the manufacturing level, the program delivered a coordinated first build across 50 units, involving 130 unique components, 11 materials, 99 tools, and 33 inspection fixtures. The first build was completed in 12 weeks.

The system achieved:

An MRI-compatible in-bore display system that allowed patients to watch video and receive information during the scan
A custom rail-mount solution engineered around a minimal 3 mm interface and capable of supporting a roughly 25 lb cantilevered display assembly

A fail-safe tipping mechanism paired with a mirror architecture that nested inside the display to manage collision risk safely
Integrated audio delivery through memory-foam pillow architecture that reduced scan noise while supporting entertainment and technologist communication
A patient experience designed to reduce anxiety and claustrophobic response during MRI exams
A differentiated in-bore entertainment solution that brought the video system into the bore without contributing RF noise to the image

By resolving patient experience, MRI compatibility, structural support, fail-safe behavior, and manufacturing execution as one integrated program, Inertia helped Innovere move Innovision from an ambitious concept into a credible in-bore product platform.

What began as a patient-comfort idea matured into a specialized MRI infotainment system designed to make scans more tolerable:

Services Provided

Concept Development & Validation

Requirements Definition

Technology Feasibility

User Needs Development

System Architecture

Concept Prototyping

R&D

Formative Evaluations

Prototyping & Rapid Builds

Human Factors & Usability

Industrial Design

Mechanical Design

User Interface Design

System Design

Verification & Validation

Design For Manufacturing

Low Volume Manufacturing & Pilot Builds

Manufacturing Transfer & Launch

Supply Chain Management

Precision Fabrication & Assembly

Inline Testing

Value Engineering

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