Brain Bucket +

(what resembles an odd marriage between Trojan battle gear and Medusa is actually part of the most powerful brain scanner ever made)

The invention of biophysicists Graham Wiggins and Lawrence Wald of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, this $250,000 helmet could enable earlier detection of brain diseases; such as, Alzheimer's.

As with traditional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the device uses magnetic fields to peer beneath bone and tissue. Its super-vision comes from 96 coils arranged on the surface of the helmet like the hexagons and pentagons of a soccer ball.

This configuration minimizes interference between the magnetic fields and enables the device to visualize the brain at a resolution six times that of a conventional MRI and up to 10 times as fast.

—Compiled from
"The Brain Bucket" as seen in Popular Science;
October, 2007; page 46.

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visualize
To produce an image of an internal organ or other part of the body by using X-rays or other means; such as, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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