The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images
We&#x27;ve had preclinical 12T and way above machines for a while now (Bruker will sell you a ~21T, 1 GHz Larmour frequency machine, for instance). They are great for some forms of spectroscopy, but the issue for imaging is that t2* becomes very short, t1 becomes long, and it becomes impossible to have good b1 or b0 homogeneity. This means that the images are not necessarily filled with as much contrast as you&#x27;d like, tend to be a bit artefact-filled, and will keep physicists like me in pay for a long time.<p>Still very cool though, and well done to the CEA team.