New clinical opportunities of low-field MRI: heart, lung, body, and musculoskeletal

Y Tian, KS Nayak - Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and …, 2024 - Springer
Contemporary whole-body low-field MRI scanners (< 1 T) present new and exciting
opportunities for improved body imaging. The fundamental reason is that the reduced off …

Low-Field-Strength Body MRI: Challenges and Opportunities at 0.55 T

AS Shetty, DR Ludwig, JE Ippolito, TJ Andrews… - …, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Advances in MRI technology have led to the development of low-field-strength
(hereafter,“low-field”)(0.55 T) MRI systems with lower weight, fewer shielding requirements …

Low‐field MRI: a report on the 2022 ISMRM workshop

AE Campbell‐Washburn, KE Keenan… - Magnetic resonance …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In March 2022, the first ISMRM Workshop on Low‐Field MRI was held virtually. The goals of
this workshop were to discuss recent low field MRI technology including hardware and …

Low-Field, Low-Cost, Point-of-Care Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A Samardzija, K Selvaganesan… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has recently experienced a renaissance that is
largely attributable to the numerous technological advancements made in MRI, including …

Low‐field MRI: clinical promise and challenges

TC Arnold, CW Freeman, B Litt… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern MRI scanners have trended toward higher field strengths to maximize signal and
resolution while minimizing scan time. However, high‐field devices remain expensive to …

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging: its history and renaissance

M Hori, A Hagiwara, M Goto, A Wada… - Investigative …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems have seen a renaissance recently
due to improvements in technology (both hardware and software). Originally, the …

Whole-body MRI at high field: technical limits and clinical potential

F Schick - European radiology, 2005 - Springer
This review seeks to clarify the most important implications of higher magnetic field strength
for clinical examinations of the whole body. An overview is provided on the resulting …

Low-field MRI: how low can we go? A fresh view on an old debate

M Sarracanie, N Salameh - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
For about 30 years, MRI set cruising speed at 1.5 T of magnetic field, with a gentle transition
toward 3 T systems. In its first 10 years of existence, there was an open debate on the …

Body MR imaging at 3.0 T: understanding the opportunities and challenges

MM Barth, MP Smith, I Pedrosa, RE Lenkinski… - Radiographics, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
The development of high-field-strength magnetic resonance (MR) imaging systems has
been driven in part by expected improvements in signal-to-noise ratio, contrast-to-noise …

Whole-Body High-Field-Strength (3.0-T) MR Imaging in Clinical Practice
 Part II. Technical Considerations and Clinical Applications1

CK Kuhl, F Traber, J Gieseke, W Drahanowsky… - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
This is the second part of a two-part series on the clinical applications of high-field-strength
(3.0-T) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy. In this part, the current level of …