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At the moment, this requires lying still inside a huge machine that draws as much power as a nuclear submarine. But you know how technological progress goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Originally shared by Ward Plunet<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brain Scanning Just Got Very Good\u2014and Very Unsettling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n HCP data has also enabled researchers to use a brain scan to predict how a person will perform on an intelligence test and during a memory or reading task. \u201cThis may be a bit scary,\u201d admitted Roderic Pettigrew, director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, during introductory remarks at the symposium. In order to collect of that data, the HCP team pioneered the use of a \u201cmultiband\u201d approach, which involves scanning three sections of the brain at the same time instead of in series. This method has allowed radiologists to acquire high-resolution images up to 8 times as fast as they previously could using traditional MRI machines. \u201cThat gives us higher quality data; it also gives us a ton more data,\u201d said Van Essen at the symposium.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/imaging\/brain-scanning-just-got-very-good-and-very-unsettling<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Via Winchell Chung.
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