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The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits

Researchers look to scanners with 10.5-tesla magnets and beyond for unprecedented detail about the brain.
  1. Anna Nowogrodzki

    1. Anna Nowogrodzki is a freelance journalist in Boston, Massachusetts.

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MRI scan of blood vessels in the brain

Cerebral blood vessels glow orange in this picture, generated by a 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner at The University of Queensland in Australia. Credit: Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland

On a cold morning in Minneapolis last December, a man walked into a research centre to venture where only pigs had gone before: into the strongest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine built to scan the human body.

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Nature 563, 24-26 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07182-7

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