Ultra-high-resolution MRI scans reveal that long-term COVID-19 symptoms could be due to brainstem inflammation.

With the advent of 7-Tesla (7T) MRI scanners, which can image the brain in much finer detail than conventional scanners, the ...

3D projections of the QSM χ maps on the rendered brainstem ROI extracted from the FreeSurfer segmentation for the healthy control group and the COVID group. The COVID group shows increased χ in ...

Another line of investigation concerns the use of high-resolution structural and functional MRI methods to quantify and visualize functional activity in human brainstem. One set of experiments concern ...

Ultra-Powered MRI Scans Show Damage to Brain's 'Control Center' Is Behind Long-Lasting COVID-19 Symptoms Oct. 7, 2024 — Damage to the brainstem -- the brain's 'control center' -- is behind long ...

Most clinical MRI exams in the U.S. are performed with 1.5T or 3T MRI systems. As recently as 2022, the National Institutes of Health documented only about 100 7T MRI machines being used for ...