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Scientists Develop High-Performance MRI Scanner in Effort to Define Microscopic Brain Structures

NIBIB in the News
July 16, 2025

Next-generation system noninvasively images tiny nerve structures disrupted in brain disorders

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A scientific team supported in part by NIH has developed a new, ultra-high-resolution brain imaging system that can reconstruct microscopic brain structures that are disrupted in neurological and neuropsychiatric brain disorders. The new system is a significant advance over conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners that cannot visualize these tiny but clinically important structures. Source: NIH