Friday, February 24, 2023

MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging

Good news! Machine learning will certainly make this even more possible!

"... For years, some researchers have been striving to build scanners that use much smaller permanent magnets, made of the alloy often found in desk toys. They produce fields roughly 1/25th as strong as a standard MRI magnet, which once would have been far too weak to glean a usable image. But, thanks to better electronics, more efficient data collection, and new signal processing techniques, multiple groups have imaged the brain in such low fields—albeit with lower resolution than standard MRI. The result is scanners small enough to roll to a patient’s bed and possibly cheap enough to make MRI accessible across the globe. ..."

MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging | Science | AAAS

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