Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0061525

Zusammenfassung

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become an important tool in medical diagnostics and neuroscience. Today, the whole process of MR image acquisition is rather lengthy and inefficient. What would happen, if we could increase signal-to-noise ratio in MRI by a factor of 20 and speed up acquisition time by a factor of 100? This is not utopia: the rather new field of metamaterial research might enable to build a magneto-inductive lens, which allows refocusing the near field outside the object to be imaged. With a large array of small receiver coils this signal could then be acquired in a...