Cheap, Homemade MRI Does a Better Job Imaging Lungs Than the Real Thing

Are you one of the millions of Americans live without health insurance ? If so , then you make love how expensive hospital visit are , especially for fancy tests like MRI . But hey , do n’t occupy . If you need an magnetic resonance imaging , you may always just use this makeshift MRI that was build using a composition board vacuum tube , curlicue of wire , and other item that you may foot up at your local ironware store . The matter is , it really turn .

Built by a dyad of researchers at Harvard , the makeshift MRI was be less than $ 100,000 to make , but it does a good task of project the lungs than traditional MRIs do . That ’s because while traditional MRI are bully at picture liquidity within the trunk , the lung are full of air , which does n’t come out in the scans . Not this hobble together contraption ; it uses a light charismatic field of operations to project aspects of the lung that are unseeable to all other imaging techniques .

So really , this is a very specialized MRI motorcar , albeit one that was basically built in a service department by a couple of demented whiz . So no , you wo n’t be capable to go down the street to your neighborhood mad scientist ’s shed to get an MRI on the cheap anytime soon , but it ’s a nice thought process , is n’t it ? [ Technology Review ]

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