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Thoralf Niendorf

Professor, head of the Experimental Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance lab, Max Delbrück Center

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"By integrating metamaterials into MRI antennas, we created a new type of transmitter and detector hardware that increases signal strength from the target tissue."

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Metamaterial antenna sharpens MRI scans on existing machines

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Senior researcher on the study

MRI scanners struggle to see two places doctors most want to check: the eye and the back of the brain. A team in Berlin built a new antenna from metamaterials that pulls far more signal from those spots.

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