Cardiac Imaging: 7-tesla Magnetic Resonance Tomograph Provides Sharper Pictures
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 09:21
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. This facilitates not only the development of possibilities for diagnosis and therapy in the case of brain and cancer diseases, but also opens up completely new possibilities, among other things, in cardiac research.