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IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution

Posted by kdawson on from the little-tiny-hairs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 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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  1. This is great to see by Zouden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if only HP and AT&T would bring back their R&D departments we might see more companies doing basic research like this.

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  2. not a valid comparison by Viking+Coder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    kebes already pretty much said it, and as I said (under a different name) on Digg,

    Saying "100 million times stronger than MRI" is a deceptive way to describe this. The normal usage of MRI that the public is familiar with is to scan your body, or parts of your body. This new technology would work on a "sample," for instance a biopsy. If the new technology operated at the same scale - your whole body - and was at 100 million times finer resolution - then that would be astounding.

    But this is a competitor for other microscopes - not MRI.

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