Why are MRI machines so noisy, and what stops us making them quieter?

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is among the most commonly used imaging methods in preclinical studies as it non-invasively produces multiparametric data of tissues and organs. An animal organism’s ...

Jonathan Ashmore, a resident physicist at King’s College Hospital, keeps a pair of sound-cancelling headphones on his desk. He dons them every time a very young patient arrives at the MRI scanner in ...