New technology to show brain scans millions of times clearer

North Carolina: On the 50th anniversary of MRI technology, scientists have announced another technology that can make traditional scans appear millions of times cleaner and clearer.

It uses a combination of MRI and light sheet microscopy. In the United States, experts at the Duke University Center for Microscopy, in collaboration with the University of Tennessee Health Center, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh and Indiana University, have added some new technology to the MRI machine to make a conventional scan 64 million times more detailed and Explains clearly. Undoubtedly, this is a revolutionary process.

Instead of pixels, ‘voxels’ make up an image in 3D. Each voxel is just 5 microns or five thousandths of a millimeter in size. This is the reason why a brain tumor can be seen even when it is just a lump of few cells.

On the one hand, we will be able to understand the brain in detail, on the other hand, we will be able to better understand Alzheimer’s, cancer and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. G. Alan Johnson, a radiologist at Duke University, has called it a wonderful invention, saying that it will greatly help in understanding neurodegenerative diseases. In this, after MRI scanning, the brain tissue is viewed with light sheet microscopy. The second step identifies specific types of cells and can help diagnose many diseases, including dementia.

When it was used to image the brains of mice, the experts themselves were surprised because by looking at mice of different ages, brain changes with age, internal connections, cells and tissues were seen in a little more detail.