Last month, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging hosted a special symposium celebrating the 20th anniversary of 7T MRI at MGH. The symposium featured talks and stories and other reminiscences from many of the creators and earliest users of the Center’s first-of-its-kind ultrahigh-field scanner. Now, you can watch and listen to the presentations that, together, provide a definitive look at the history of 7T MRI at Mass General.
20 Years of 7T Imaging
Introduction: 7T 20th Anniversary Symposium
Franz Schmitt: The making of the MGH 7T
Andreas Potthast: from Allegra to big-Allegra - a life in the bore
Douglas Kelley: 20 years of lessons learned and unlearned at 7T
Chris Wiggins: I, too, am a Tesla addict; My journey to 7 T and beyond (AUDIO)
Rick Hoge: Going with the flow; first ASL and BOLD on the MGH 7T (AUDIO)
Boris Keil: Going loopy; my adventures in 7T coil arrays (AUDIO)
Thomas Witzel: Care of the aging magnet; death and resurrection (AUDIO)
Hans Breiter: Computational behavior needs high-field imaging if it is going to help AI
In the images above: The Center’s Jon Polimeni and Azma Mareyam share in the excitement about the 20th anniversary of 7T MRI (top right), and Martinos researchers and colleagues who played integral roles in creating and developing the technology (above). Photos by Caroline Magnain.