Our long term goals are to exploit the potential gains available when performing MRI studies at higher magnetic fields to investigate clinical and research applications in the human torso. To date these efforts have focused on developing the hardware, RF management tools, acquisition methods and safety aspects necessary to study several different target organs of the human torso including the heart, breasts, kidney, prostate and liver. Greater spatial resolution, spectral resolution and contrast at ultrahigh magnetic fields promises to improve the characterization of disease whether for localizing disease or monitoring progression as in the case of cancer or the diagnosis and assessment of cardiovascular function and health.
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