The image could make one think of pretty leaflets of a branch of fern. However, we are not in front of a representation of nature but in the head of a 6 year old child. Brain cuts from all angles as we had never seen with such power of detail. This series of unusual shots was made public this Thursday by the atomic energy police station (CEA) which has superpowing MRI.
Because we know little but the public research organization that has been working for eighty years on the civil and military use of the atom has always been interested in health. “The CEA particularly invested in medical imaging because the first techniques used to look inside the organs used X-rays and gamma rays,” recalls Vincent Lebon, professor of medicine at Paris-Saclay University and deputy director of fundamental research at CEA. Then when magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) appeared in the years 1970-1980, CEA mobilized its technological expertise teams to innovate and offer new prototypes. »»
