Answer: "This particular MR image, though, was not made for diagnostic purposes, nor even really for science. No one, to my knowledge, had ever made an MR image of a mother and child. We made this one because we wanted to see it."

The question I was wondering about is "how did she get two million dollars to buy a 3-tesla MRI machine". And the answer is, be a professor at MIT. (http://saxelab.mit.edu/)