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A new design for functional MRI brain scanners improves resolution ten-fold

NIBIB in the News
December 8, 2023

Higher resolution will allow neuroscientists to more precisely localize and trace brain networks

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An intense international effort to improve the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for studying the human brain has led to an ultra-high resolution 7 Tesla scanner.  It records up to 10 times more detail than current 7T scanners and over 50 times more detail than current 3T scanners, which most hospitals use. Source: Berkeley News