DOTmed April 3, 2024
After more than 20 years, the first images of human brains produced with the most powerful MR magnet in the world, the 11.7T Iseult MR machine, have come out, providing ultra-detailed anatomical insights that are expected to shed light on the mechanism of the mind, its neurological states, and the effects that various chemicals and conditions have on it.
Housed at NeuroSpin, a brain imaging research center on the CEA Paris-Saclay site, under Le CEA (the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), the scanner assessed twenty healthy volunteers’ brains, capturing images for each one in about four minutes. This is significantly less time than is currently needed with standard 1.5T and 3T clinical machines used in hospitals. The resolution...
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