Korea: New MRI device with high resolution team

Researchers at the Neuroscience Research Institute of Gachon University in South Korea have announced that they have successfully developed a device that can help see through the human brain with high resolution.

This device is a helmet that acts as an antenna.

It is capable of capturing magnetic resonance images (MRI) clearly of tiny blood nerves in brain cells and micro-arteries in the brain. Those are images that have never been seen before.

The MRI system used in this process is 7 Tesla, which has 5 times the magnetic energy of a regular MRI system. On the hat there are electric coils. When a patient wears a hat and is inserted into an MRI device, these wires connect and transmit signals to the MRI machine.

The team said the images taken from the system will also help detect and prevent many different types of human brain diseases.

(Photo: Insightneuroimaging)

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