It's official: human 7T

This week it was made official that the Center is going to purchase a human 7T scanner from Siemens. The system, known as Terra, has recently been approved for clinical use in Europe. The clinical use as approved will be limited to a single transmit RF chain, which is problematic for body imaging, which in turn indicates that Siemens is envisioning marketing 7T for neuro applications primarily. The Center's human 7T research is finally taking off. The delivery is expected by September 2018.  That will be a 3rd 7T installation in Korea, following NRI (Gachon Univ., 2005) and KBSI (2015, also see here).