{"id":93864,"date":"2019-07-19T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-worlds-smallest-mri-machine-just-captured-the-magnetic-field-of-a-single-atom"},"modified":"2019-07-19T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:42:37","slug":"the-worlds-smallest-mri-machine-just-captured-the-magnetic-field-of-a-single-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-worlds-smallest-mri-machine-just-captured-the-magnetic-field-of-a-single-atom","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Smallest MRI Machine Just Captured The Magnetic Field of a Single Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-smallest-mri-machine-just-captured-the-magnetic-field-of-a-single-atom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a new technique, scientists have performed the world\u2019s smallest magnetic resonance imaging to capture the magnetic fields of single atoms. It\u2019s an incredible breakthrough that could improve quantum research, as well as our understanding of the Universe on subatomic scales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very excited about these results,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-07-world-smallest-mri-atoms.html\">said physicist Andreas Heinrich<\/a> of the Institute for Basic Sciences in Seoul. \u201cIt is certainly a milestone in our field and has very promising implications for future research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably most familiar with magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, as a method used to image internal body structures in medicine. An MRI machine uses highly powerful magnets to induce a strong magnetic field around the body, forcing the spin of the protons in the nuclei of your body\u2019s hydrogen atoms to align with the magnetic field, all without producing side-effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a new technique, scientists have performed the world\u2019s smallest magnetic resonance imaging to capture the magnetic fields of single atoms. It\u2019s an incredible breakthrough that could improve quantum research, as well as our understanding of the Universe on subatomic scales. \u201cI am very excited about these results,\u201d said physicist Andreas Heinrich of the Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93864","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}