mri
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These Giant Magnets Are About To Start The Journey To Absolute Zero
Image Cache: Among many other things, General Electric makes the MRI machines that peek inside your body when something’s broke. To do so requires one very cold, very big magnet.
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Left In The Brain: The Potentially Toxic Residue From MRI Drugs
Researchers raise alarms about unknown health risks of GE’s Omniscan and Bayer’s Magnevist, drugs injected to get better MRI pictures that contain the heavy metal gadolinium.
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A New High-Speed MRI Technique Is Fast Enough To Record Someone Singing
It’s a remarkable technology capable of looking inside a human being, but magnetic resonance imaging — or MRI — machines are finicky and require a patient to remain absolutely still while it does its thing. But researchers at the University of Illinois have found a way to capture up to 100 frames per second on…
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Monster Machines: The World’s Strongest MRI Will Be Able To Pick Up A Tank
The stronger an MRI machine’s magnetic field is, the better image resolution and refresh rates it is able to achieve. While most medical-grade MRIs today top out between 1.5 and 3 Tesla, the unit measure of magnetic field strength, GE has recently constructed a unit with the whopping power of 7 Tesla. But that’s nothing…