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Does this mean we can increase the resolution of mris to the atomic level? That would be amazing for studying the brain.
by mrfusion 7y ago
Does this mean we can increase the resolution of mris to the atomic level? That would be amazing for studying the brain.
- heyitsguay 7y agoNot an expert, but from my read they built this basically by combining an MRI sensor with a scanning tunneling probe - so it's set up kind of like atom-sensing atomic force microscopes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscopy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_force_microscopy). It doesn't seem like this technique would give you much depth penetration inside the body for one thing, and it'd be tough to process across human scales in a reasonable time. There are a lot of atoms in those 1mm-ish voxels of a medical MRI. It might be useful for purposes similar to AFMs or electron microscopes in the future, though.