These are essentially the most exact photographs of the mind ever printed | EUROtoday

Called Iseult, the device was designed and developed by the CEA, the results of round twenty years of analysis. A French success which Emmanuel Macron rejoiced over, emphasizing “a major advance and immense hope for the study of our health”

“This is a major world first in the field of brain imaging,” says Alexandre Vignaud, analysis director on the CEA. The photographs are essentially the most exact ever printed. With 11.7 Tesla, the Iseult MRI has a lot larger energy than hospital instruments (1.5 to three Tesla) or different gadgets (at 7 Tesla).

“We are able to see on the scale of a few thousand neurons and thus have very fine details on the anatomy of the brain, its connections and its activity in a few minutes,” says the analysis director.

Towards a greater prognosis of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's

The improvement of this new MRI was made doable thanks to twenty wholesome volunteers, with none damaging results being recognized. This opens “new perspectives for exploring the brain”. Iseult will likely be used to “better understand the mechanisms of cognition: how our brain is capable of reading, speaking or doing calculations”, says the CEA.