An MRI Wind Tunnel

Researchers at the University of New Brunswick (Canada) have invented a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method for imaging fluids moving at high speeds inside an MRI scanner. With their "MRI wind tunnel," they measured the flow past a wing at an average speed of about 40 km/h. Panel (A) shows the measurement in the MRI wind tunnel; (B) shows the results of a computer calculation.

Reported by: Newling et al., Physical Review Letters, 8 October 2004.

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