For sharper pictures of the body's interior
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 13:07
in Physics & Chemistry
Snap-shots of a diseased heart or deep insights into cancer cells - a 7-tesla magnetic resonance tomograph promises scientists novel possibilities. The magnetic field of this so-called ultra-high field magnetic resonance tomograph (MRT) is 140 000 times as strong as that of the Earth and can make the most minute structures of the human body visible...