IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution

An anonymous reader writes "IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This result, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale."

High levels of radiation

[Light and Truth]

This is a concerning development for those who have been following the advancement of science (MRI Technology). One of the undocumented effects (intentional) of MRI is "direct particle insertion" where the resonance of strong magnetism can be used to transport matter particles as energy through short distances and reassembled within confines of enclosed cavity (skull or chest). This is DOCUMENTED FACT as established by Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur in 1971 through research papers (suppressed as unpublished). With current levels of technology there is too much diffusion by radio waves to take advantage of timing effects due to low resolution. Experiments are performed DAILY to eliminate high levels of interference (government frequencies) but none could prove beyond a doubt a way to perfect a technique for changing neurons due to the small size (can be seen with the strongest microscope only). Having mapped a human brain (genomics) with fine resolution permits modification of magnetic waves to CREATE AND DESTROY thought. This tech was five years to deployment but has been accelerated for widespread acceptance (planned by bureaucracy).

Re:High levels of radiation

[Evanisincontrol]

Please inform us if you are serious or joking so you can be modded appropriately. I hope it's the latter.

Re:pr0n!

[sanosuke001]

we can SEE the herpes virus enter the skin during penetration now! I don't need 1080p, I need HSVp!

Re:High levels of radiation

[HTH NE1]

The Doctor: Um, that big, erm, machine thing - is it supposed to be making that noise?
Florence Finnegan: You wouldn't understand.
The Doctor: But isn't that a magnetic resonance imaging thing? Like a ginormous sort of a magnet? I did Magnetics GCSE. Well, I failed, but all the same...
Florence Finnegan: A magnet with its setting now increased to 50,000 tesla.
The Doctor: Ooh, that's a bit strong. Isn't it?
Florence Finnegan: It'll send out a magnetic pulse that'll fry the brain stems of every living thing within 250,000 miles. Except for me. Safe in this room.
The Doctor: But hold on, hold on. I did Geography GCSE. I passed that one. Doesn't that distance include the Earth?
Florence Finnegan: Only the side facing the moon. The other half will survive. Call it my gift.

Re:uploading

[jellomizer]

But would you want to live forever in a Windows Vista Box. You are thinking naughty things, cancel or allow.

yes but

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll know exactly what your brain looked like unfortunately the vict^W subject is vaporized...

But the real question is:

[Mr_eX9]

Has this IBM invention patented itself yet?

Re:High levels of radiation

[SigmaTao]

Your brain has to be prepared - Diced.... But don't worry we will give you a replacement - a simple one should suffice :-)

Re:High levels of radiation

[philspear]

This is DOCUMENTED FACT as established by Dr. Paul C. Lauterbur in 1971 through research papers (suppressed as unpublished)

Aha, an undocumented documented fact. Well, I'm convinced.

Re:Interesting!

[popeye44]

Great, All I need is a machine which ignores me.. then 5 minutes later wants something but isn't happy with whatever I give it. randomly scratches the shit out of me and takes off running like it's ass is on fire. No Thanks.

Re:But the real question is:

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the real question is: Does go BING?

And I'm making myself...

[Anonymous Coward]

...not a tinfoil hat, but rather, a hat made from Mu-metal [wikipedia.org].

Re:Interesting!

[Sponge Bath]

...simulating a cat brain

No problem:

for (;;) {
        for (i=1000 ; i ; i--)
                printf("meow\n");
        cough_up_hairball();
}

Re:High levels of radiation

[Dunbal]

You forgot the bit about the Time Cube!

Re:High levels of radiation

[HTH NE1]

You forgot the bit about the Time Cube!

And being invented by Shampoo!

(A gift of peace in all good faith.)

Re:Interesting!

[Directrix1]

Are you talking about a cat or a wife?

A cat is fine too.

[soupforare]

..."or"?

Re:Interesting!

[Z34107]

I think you need a call to rand(), a switch statement, and some additional function calls like sleep_in_sun(), eat(), shit(), scratch_aimlessly_at_litter(), tear_through_the_house_for_no_apparent_reason(), etc.

It's C. The cough_up_hairball() function has undocumented side effects, including all of he aforementioned.

Additionally, after 0, the i register underflows when compiled with a particular gcc switch, setting the carry flag and incrementing a pointer in another register. This modifies the LSB of a pointer to an entry in a 256-entry lookup-table that is randomly populated with function pointers which also call those functions. After UNSIGNED_INT_MAX NOPs, the loop starts again.

Now, in C++, he could have just overloaded the "<<" operator to do all of that.

Re:High levels of radiation

[The Great Pretender]

I also HEARD that another SIDE EFFECT was the unbridled NEED to write in CAPS to try and DRIVE home a POINT. NEXT comes the DESIRE to add a lot of EXCLAIMATION marks to EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re:Interesting!

[jstockdale]

It's C. The cough_up_hairball() function has undocumented side effects, including all of he aforementioned.

Now, in C++, he could have just overloaded the "<<" operator to do all of that.

Well, at least it's better than cat implemented in Java:

AnimalInstance ourCat = new Cat
ourCat.meow()
ourCat.sleep_in_sun()
ourCat.eat()
ourCat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason()
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at
org.slashdot.animal.Cat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason() ...

*sigh* Oh Java.

Re:uploading

[jellomizer]

Yea but it would be pronounced so loud, that everyone would know.