Technique Boosts the Quality of MRI Scans

Researchers have uncovered a new way to boost the quality of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans for use in large-scale studies and analyses of stroke outcomes.

Stroke victims often undergo an MRI brain scan when they reach hospital, but these scans do not have a high enough resolution for research analysis.

Now a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA, USA) in collaboration with doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA), and many other institutions, has discovered a way to boost the quality of standard MRI scans for future research.

Clinical MRI scans of emergency stroke patients are taken in low-resolution with image slices only every 5-7mm however researchers require higher-resolution images with slices only 1mm apart. More...