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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has recently unveiled a series of human brain images that have been captured by the world's most powerful MRI machine Iseult Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, reported India Today..
Setting a new benchmark as the world's most powerful MRI scanner, the machine's cutting-edge technology boasts an unparalleled magnetic field strength of 11.7 Teslas..
Among other things, the report said that the Iseult MRI machine can acquire highly detailed anatomical images of the brain in just about four minutes..
Currently, the MRI scanners currently available in hospitals take hours to acquire highly detailed anatomical images of the brain and they operate at lower magnetic field strengths of 1.5 or 3 Teslas..
Apart from this, the Iseult MRI machine's high magnetic field strength will improve the detection of chemical species with weak signals and could lead to breakthroughs in understanding various brain functions and disorders added the report...
