Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body—including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that ...

The center will house the state's most powerful MRI scanner. The 7-Tesla MRI scanner will provide more precise brain imaging than patients in the state have been able to receive within South Carolina.

"Our innovation in MRI technology requires a total redesign of nearly all of the scanner components, not just an incremental change," said lead researcher David Feinberg, an adjunct professor in the ...

Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have developed an ultra-low magnetic scanner, which can perform MRI scans without the need for intravenous contrast agents and with unprecedented precision.