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Article: Two Magnets are Cheaper Than One: Stanford Engineers Construct an Inexpensive MRI Scanner.
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- March 20, 2001
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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001
There's a bargain in the basement of Stanford's Packard Electrical Engineering building: a low-cost magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. MRI scanners take sharp inner pictures of the body including the brain, spine and joints. MRI images provide better contrast in soft tissue like the brain compared with other imaging techniques such as X-ray, CT or ultrasound. But MRI scanners don't come cheap. One whole-body scanner costs $1 million to $3 million, and scan charges can exceed $1,000.
"Personally, I never liked the cost of MRI. I'm very frugal," says Steven ...