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One obvious application: your family doctor will have an MRI machine in her office, same for all physio clinics
by inasio 3y ago
One obvious application: your family doctor will have an MRI machine in her office, same for all physio clinics
- scythe 3y agoMRI will get much cheaper, but you still need a good upper critical field and a proper access control (Zone 2/3/4) protocol. So probably not in very small buildings.
- fluidcruft 3y agoFrom what I can tell this material can't provide higher than 0.3T. We've had permanent magnet MRI at 0.3T but the drawbacks vs superconducting magnets are weight and lack of active shielding.
- cperciva 3y agoWith room temperature superconductivity doesn't it become possible to turn the magnet on and off far more easily? MRIs would be much safer if they were only energized during the actual imaging process.
- carabiner 3y agoWhat are the failure modes for a superconductor MRI? Could it cause a resonance cascade?
- post-it 3y agoSign me up, I'd like to be one of the biped critters with giant mouths on their stomachs. Short pipeline, very efficient.
- ben_w 3y agoThat description sounds like the F'lickta in Marathon 2, was it also something in Half Life?
- moffkalast 3y agoAt least now the silo doors will open by sliding on superconductors.
- delecti 3y agoI think "superconductor MRI" is redundant. The failure modes would mostly be the same as for the big ones: sucking in metal chairs if you're not careful.
- kzrdude 3y agoThey are already superconducting and using liquid helium to cool. They have failure modes of spilling gas out into the room (patient and operators have to evacuate.)
- Roark66 3y agoNot so fast... These superconductors although revolutionary loose superconductivity in high magnetic fields (or with high currents). If this proves true I'd see their use more in electronic circuits. Novel sensors etc rather than classic high power high field uses people dream about when the words "room temperature superconductivity" gets thrown about.