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Evening Standard
Lucinda Cameron

New type of medical scanner could help stroke patients – research

Professor David Lurie hailed the new technology (University of Aberdeen/PA) -

A new type of medical scanner can identify brain damage in stroke patients at lower magnetic fields than ever before, researchers have revealed.

The Field Cycling Imager (FCI), described as a world-first, derives from MRI but is able to work at ultra-low magnetic fields including below that of a fridge magnet, while obtaining good quality pictures.

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