New Kind of MRI Enables Study of Magnets for Computer Memory

Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 08:28 in Physics & Chemistry

What is there to see inside a magnet that's smaller than the head of a pin? Quite a lot, say physicists who've invented a new kind of MRI technique to do just that. The technique may eventually enable the development of extremely small computers, and even give doctors a new tool for studying the plaques in blood vessels that play a role in diseases such as heart disease.

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