For sharper pictures of the body's interior
Snap-shots of a diseased heart or deep insights into cancer cells - a 7-tesla magnetic resonance tomograph promises scientists novel possibilities. The magnetic field of this so-called ultra-high field magnetic resonance tomograph (MRT) is 140 000 times as strong as that of the Earth and can make the most minute structures of the human body visible. This facilitates not only the development of possibilities for diagnosis and therapy in the case of brain and cancer diseases, but also opens up completely new possibilities, among other things, in cardiac research. One of the project partners is the PTB, whose scientists want to explore the technical possibilities of the new device and make it useful for clinical application. Today, the corresponding research building in the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of the Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine) in Berlin-Buch was dedicated during a visit by the Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan. more...