The world's most powerful MRI scanner has delivered its first images of human brains. Take a look - it's impressive!
“Iseult”, the world’s most powerful MRI scanner, has delivered its first images of the human brain. Image: ALAIN JOCARD / AFP“Iseult”, the world’s most powerful MRI scanner, has delivered its first images of the human brain. Image: ALAIN JOCARD / AFPof human brains, reaching a new level of precision that is hoped will shed more light on our mysterious minds – and the illnesses that haunt them.
“We have seen a level of precision never reached before at CEA,” said Alexandre Vignaud, a physicist working on the project. This power allows the machine to scan images with 10 times more precision than the MRIs commonly used in hospitals, whose power does not normally exceed three teslas. France’s research minister Sylvie Retailleau, herself a physicist, said “the precision is hardly believable!”
One of the main goals of such a powerful scanner is to refine our understanding of the anatomy of the brain and which areas are activated when it carries out particular tasks. “For example, we know that a particular area of the brain – the hippocampus – is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, so we hope to be able to find out how the cells work in this part of the cerebral cortex,” said CEA researcher Anne-Isabelle Etienvre.
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