New Technology Might Improve MRI’s

  For people for have to have MRI’s have to sit helplessly under a scanner for about 45 minutes. With this new technology called “compressing sensing”, discovered by Rice University, people might not have to sit under the scanner for so long. 

  The MRI machines that currently are equipped with the compressing sensor, work much faster than the machines that aren’t equipped with the compressing sensor. They have always been trying to figure out how they could make these MRI’s quicker and faster but also keep the same amount of quality in data. They didn’t want to increase the speed and it become less accurate.

"MRI machines currently use mathematical technology developed in the 1930s, and scans can take up to 45 minutes and require patients to hold completely still during that time, something that is especially difficult for very sick or very young patients," Baraniuk said.

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