{"id":231825,"date":"2026-02-21T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mri-antenna-can-boost-image-quality-and-shorten-scan-times-without-changing-existing-machines"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:10:30","slug":"mri-antenna-can-boost-image-quality-and-shorten-scan-times-without-changing-existing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/mri-antenna-can-boost-image-quality-and-shorten-scan-times-without-changing-existing-machines","title":{"rendered":"MRI antenna can boost image quality and shorten scan times\u2014without changing existing machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mri-antenna-can-boost-image-quality-and-shorten-scan-times-without-changing-existing-machines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine\u2019s most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body\u2014including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that are of particular relevance for ophthalmology\u2014are difficult to image clearly. The problem is not the scanner itself, but the hardware that sends and receives radio signals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers led by Nandita Saha, a doctoral student in the Experimental Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance lab of Professor Thoralf Niendorf at the Max Delbr\u00fcck Center have developed an advanced materials-based MRI antenna that overcomes these limitations\u2014delivering enhanced images more quickly and that can be used in existing MRI machines. The research was <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202517760\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Materials.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Niendorf and his team worked closely with researchers at Rostock University Medical Center, combining expertise in MRI physics with clinical ophthalmology and translational imaging. The Rostock team is also supporting clinical validation of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine\u2019s most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body\u2014including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that are of particular relevance for ophthalmology\u2014are difficult to image clearly. The problem is not the scanner itself, but the hardware that sends and receives radio [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}