X-Message-Number: 24660
From: "The NanoAging Institute" <>
Subject: World's Most Powerful MRI for Decoding the Human Brain
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:06:47 -0400

watch biochemical changes in the brain almost in real time, as a
person is thinking or learning
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Dr. Keith Thulborn, director of the UIC Center for Magnetic Resonance
Research, will showcase the first test pictures from the new 9.4-tesla
MRI scanner. He will also feature images of single thoughts as a
person learns to perform a new task. These images, from UIC's
state-of-the-art 3.0-tesla MRI scanner, are the first of their kind.

This advanced technology at UIC ushers in a new age of metabolic
imaging that will help researchers decipher the workings of the human
brain, detect diseases even before their clinical signs appear,
develop targeted drug therapies and provide a better understanding of
learning disabilities.

Central to the newest technology is the 9.4-tesla magnet, larger than
any existing human-sized magnet, built by GE Healthcare, a unit of
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Thanks to the power of this
magnet, UIC researchers will be able to detect signals from elements
like sodium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen -- the metabolic
building blocks of brain function and human thought. As a consequence,
UIC researchers will be able to watch biochemical changes in the brain
almost in real time, as a person is thinking or learning.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/507138/?sc=wire
Newswise 20040917
UIC
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