Hand-held magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract: The costs and complex infrastructure for high-field (> 1.5 Tesla) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has relegated this extremely-safe and remarkably-revealing clinical tool to high-end hospital care. Recently-developed low-field MR imagers (0.05 to 0.2 Tesla) are changing this situation, because they can accurately image an adult brain, yet are portable enough to wheel to an ICU or NICU.

In this talk, White will discuss his group's nascent effort to go even further; an imager that a clinician could slide over an arm (or a leg, or an infant's head), and "see beneath the skin" in real time. White will start by describing the techniques used in their $100, student-assembleable, finger-sized imager, and then discuss the daunting challenges in moving beyond their very small educational device.

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Audience: general audience

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