The Evolution of Field Strength in MR:

Back to the Future?

MRI is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. First pioneering work had been done at very low field strength of ~0.05 T, from then on field strength always went up, with 1.5 and 3 T as the mainstay of clinical MRI. Ultrahigh field at 7 T has become available for clinical applications and research scanners with up to 11.7 T are already in place. Remarkably, over the last few years very intense developments have taken place to have a new look at low field MR (~0.5 T) and even ultralow-field MRI (~0.05 T). The presentation will briefly look at the history of the development of field strength and provide some rationale why it may make sense to go back to lower fields. It will also try to provide an outlook on where MRI might go in the following years.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Hennig

The lecture will be held in sitem-insel (Room O2.211), Freiburgstr. 3, Bern followed by an Apero

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For further info please contact: karin.zwygart@insel.ch