The world's most powerful MRI machine used on humans packs a 45-ton magnet that generates a 9.4-Tesla magnetic field. If you're counting Teslas at home — which are a standard measure of magnetic force ...

MANKATO — What weighs 10 tons and costs $2.3 million? If you happened by Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato Saturday morning, you might’ve seen for yourself. The clinic’s new MRI scanner was swung ...

Freeman Health System has announced the availability of "3T" MRIs at the Joplin hospital. The new technology — the designation stands for 3-Tesla — includes a magnet twice as strong as the ones used ...

The stronger an MRI machine’s magnetic field is, the better image resolution and refresh rates it is able to achieve. While most medical-grade MRIs today top out between 1.5 and 3 Tesla, the unit ...

People with balance disorders or dizziness traceable to an inner-ear disturbance show distinctive abnormal eye movements when the affected ear is exposed to the strong pull of an MRI’s magnetic field, ...