Word: mris
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Schreiber's research will hopefully lead to designing better "gene therapy" and understanding genetic disease. Nelson and Lieber's work may help in the engineering of levitated trains and making magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs) smaller and more efficient...
Nelson explained that since such materials would be easier to cool, his "dream" is an MRI "similar to Star Trek, the size of a hand-held calculator," rather than the current MRIs which are the size of a small room which often disturb claustrophobic patients...
Other area hospitals, including Harvard affiliates, are also beginning to make use of the new technology. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, radiologists are currently experimenting with network-linked MRIs and CAT scans...