A thermotherapy device (10), for new-born and premature babies, has a bed substructure (30) and an incubator chamber (20) with a positioning aid (50) in the incubator chamber (20). The positioning aid (50) is a flexible sheet fixed to a holding structure (60). The positioning aid (50) can be stretched out by the holding structure (60). The width to which the positioning aid (50) can be stretched out is adjustable by adjusting a width of the holding structure (60). The positioning aid (50) can be pulled and/or pivoted out of the incubator chamber (20) with the aid of the holding structure (60). The holding structure (60) is movably mounted in the bed substructure. The holding structure (60) has at least two pivotable holding arms (61). The two holding arms (61) form a holding arm pair.

The present disclosure provides an incubator capable of enabling a user to easily and sufficiently perform a required operation inside an infant accommodation space of the incubator, since substantially the entire area of a hand insertion opening is actually opened when the user opens a service door and inserts their hand into the hand insertion opening. In the incubator, the hand insertion opening is configured so as to be capable of being opened and closed by the service door in a first state in which a first support frame member is attached to a peripheral wall section of the infant accommodation space, and the hand insertion opening is configured so as to be capable of functioning as an aperture window in a second state in which a second support frame member, a third support frame member, and an aperture window forming member are respectively attached to the peripheral wall section.

An incubator is provided in which a latch receiving portion is disposed in one of an incubator base or baby guards, a latch portion is disposed in the other of the incubator base or the baby guards, and the latch portion is configured to be unlatched by turning an operable member forward and then linearly moving the operable member forward.

The present invention provides an incubator in which there is no concern of a user feeling pain or injuring their arm, even if their arm makes comparatively hard contact with an upper end of baby guards when the user has placed their arm inside an infant accommodation space. The baby guards are formed with a protrusion and have sufficient strength as a guard configuration body at an outer periphery of the infant accommodation space, and the width of a region inside the baby guards where observation by the user is slightly inconvenienced does not become particularly large. In the incubator, at least one of the baby guards includes the substantially rod shaped protrusion configuring an upper end of the at least one baby guard when in a substantially upright state that is substantially upward.

An incubator of the disclosure is configured such that a top hood is detachable from a peripheral frame by unlatching first latch mechanisms that latch the top hood. The incubator is also configured such that any of wall portion among four wall portions configuring the peripheral frame are detachable from an incubator base by unlatching any of corresponding second to fifth latch mechanisms.

A bed is stably mounted on a body when located at a first position. The bed is mounted on the body via buffering members so that the buffering members absorb and prevent vibration and shock from being transmitted from the body to the bed, when located at the second position.

According to some aspects, a system configured to facilitate imaging an infant using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device is provided herein. The system comprises an infant-carrying apparatus comprising an infant support configured to support the infant and an isolette for positioning the infant relative to the MRI device, the isolette comprising: a base for supporting the infant-carrying apparatus; and a bottom surface configured to be coupled to the MRI device. In some embodiments, the infant-carrying apparatus further comprises at least one radio frequency (RF) coil coupled to the infant support and configured to be coupled to the MRI device to detect MR signals during imaging performed by the MRI device. A method for positioning an infant relative to an MRI device using an infant-carrying apparatus and isolette is further provided herein.

An incubator includes: a transparent hood, covering an accommodating space configured to accommodate a baby; an illumination light source, disposed so as to avoid disturbing observation of the baby through the transparent hood, and an emitting member, fixed to the transparent hood, and configured to emit light from the illumination light source, so as to illuminate the accommodating space.

The present invention provides an incubator in which there is no particular need to interpose annular shaped packing, which is capable of substantially maintaining airtightness between a base frame positioned in the vicinity of an outer periphery of a service port and a service door, between the vicinity of the outer periphery of the service port and the service door. The incubator includes a substantially ring-shaped insertion groove that is formed in an inner face of the service door so as to substantially run along an outer periphery of the inner face, and a substantially ring-shaped outer peripheral portion that is formed to the base frame, and is configured such that a substantially ring-shaped leading end of the substantially ring-shaped outer peripheral portion can be inserted in a substantially ring shape into the substantially ring-shaped insertion groove.

A system configured to support growth and development of a premature fetus is disclosed. Specifically, a method and apparatus configured to provide extracorporeal support for premature fetuses is disclosed.