IBM Research creates microscope with 100 million times finer resolution than current MRI

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 11:14 in Physics & Chemistry

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Centre for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale...

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