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New Discovery May Enhance MRI Scans, Lead to Portable MRI Machines
November 25, 2008
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Researchers in Ohio and France have solved a longstanding scientific mystery involving magnetic resonance--the physical phenomenon that allows MRI instruments in modern hospitals to image tissues deep within the human body. Their discovery, a new mathematical algorithm, should lead to new MRI techniques with more informative and sharper images.Full StorySource
American Institute of Physics
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