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Mayo Clinic remains a leader in healthcare innovation, applying advanced technologies like the 7-Tesla MRI to help improve patient care. This imaging system uses a stronger magnetic field to produce more detailed images of the body's interior.
Dr. Justin Cramer, a Mayo Clinic neuroradiologist, explains how detailed brain scans help Mayo Clinic care teams diagnose and treat patients with epilepsy and other neurologic diseases.
Learn more about how Mayo Clinic experts are utilizing these tools to help more patients.
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"This is a 7-Tesla MRI here, 3-Tesla MRI here. You can see pretty clearly that there's a dramatic difference between the two," explains Dr. Cramer.
The clinical use of 7-Tesla MRI enhances Mayo Clinic's ability to manage epilepsy, specific brain and peripheral nerve tumors, and other neurological disorders.
"You can image smaller, like higher spatial resolution, better with lower noise or just faster. You also get better contrast. So the images are more vivid, and you can differentiate different structures better," says Dr. Cramer.
How improved MRI scans help
The increased image quality from the MRI systems gives radiologists an advantage in finding certain brain irregularities.
"There are several things that 7-Tesla has been really proven to be beneficial for, like epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and vascular imaging," he explains.
This advanced imaging technology is key to ensuring patients receive an accurate diagnosis to guide treatment.
"We want to really turn it into a workhorse for all brain imaging so that any patient who needs a brain MRI could potentially benefit from the increased image quality of 7-Tesla," Dr. Cramer says.
Mayo Clinic was the first center in North America to use clinical 7-Tesla MRI after the Food and Drug Administration approved the system in late 2017.
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