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Simultaneous imaging of hard and soft biological tissues in a low-field MRI scanner

José Miguel Algarín¹, Elena Díaz², Pepe Borreguero¹, Fernando Galve¹, Daniel Grau², Juan Pablo Rigla², Rubén Bosch¹, José Manuel González², Eduardo Pallás¹, Miguel Corberán¹, Carlos Gramage¹, Alfonso Ríos², José María Benlloch¹, and Joseba Alonso¹
¹I3M, CSIC, Valencia, Spain, ²Tesoro Imaging, Valencia, Spain

In the present work we have demonstrated the capability of our new low-cost “DentMRI – Gen I” scanner to simultaneously image hard and soft biological tissues; we show that human teeth can be imaged with high resolution at low magnetic fields; and we have devised a new pulse sequence (DRaNSSE).

(a) Picture of the scanned rabbit head. (b) Picture of a rabbit skull, taken from Gabrielle Ochnik, Pinterest. (c) Top: single slices for 90 µs dead time; middle: the same slices for 1 ms dead time; bottom: difference between the above images.

(a) 2 dimensional slices of four human teeth embedded in a piece of pork ham (PETRA). (b) Photograph of the sample.