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Published online 21 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040920-4
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MRI machine tracks brain's metabolism
Powerful imager scans patients with strongest-ever magnetic field.
An unusually powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine was unveiled today that should reveal not just the anatomy but also the metabolism of the human brain, say scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
If it lives up to its promise, the machine should help researchers to probe how the brain thinks, learns, fights disease and responds to experimental therapies.
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