MRI advances reported at AAPM

MRI technology is advancing at a rapid pace, both in terms of instrumentation and applications. At the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting held July 18-22 in Philadelphia, attendees learned of recent advances in both of these areas.

Norbert Pelc, ScD, professor of radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA, described some of the technology developments that have emerged over the past couple of decades. He pointed out the steady shift in clinical MRI from 1.5 tesla to 3 tesla, with the reducing cost and increasing reliability of 3-tesla magnets leading to an increase in the number of higher-field-strength systems.

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