The most powerful MRI in the world delivers its first brain images. Thanks to an extraordinary magnet, the Iseult MRI developed at Paris-Saclay by the CEA makes it possible to obtain images ten times more precise than those available in hospitals.
The machine, a 132-ton magnet housed in a cylinder 5 meters long and as high, composed of a coil carrying a current of 1,500 amps, has an opening of 90 cm to accommodate a human body. This technical feat, the result of a Franco-German partnership, required more than 20 years of research.