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Abstract #0702

Low Cost High Performance MRI

Mathieu Sarracanie 1,2 , Cristen LaPierre 1,2 , Najat Salameh 1,2 , David E J Waddington 1,3 , Thomas Witzel 1 , and Matthew S Rosen 1,2

1 MGH/A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, United States, 2 Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, 3 ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

MRI is unparalleled in its ability to non-invasively visualize anatomical structure and function with high spatial and temporal resolution and a broad range of clinical contrasts. The vast majority of clinical scanners incorporate superconducting magnets operating at 1.5, 3 and more exceptionally at 7T. At 6.5mT, more than 450 times lower than clinical MRI scanners, we demonstrate 2.53.58.5mm3 resolution in the living human brain in 6 minutes. We contend that robust non-field-cycled low-field implementations of MRI (< 10mT) have the potential to make clinically relevant images and set new standards for a completely new category of affordable robust portable devices.

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