Carver Biomedical Research Building of University of Iowa houses the world's first MAGNUS scanner installed in a non-military academic research site. It also has the latest GE Signa 7T human scanner. The investigational Signa MAGNUS 3T scanner recently got an upgrade & repair, and the 7T scanner now has a fully functional parallel transmit capability. This building must be where some of the early 7T brain images were produced, which I obtained from somebody in 2017 in order to compare GE and Siemens 7T images. The building in the picture reminds me of the other building in Korea in a parallel universe, with their expensive facilities, shiny walls, and the energy of young graduate students flocking around a cafeteria.
King's College London published an on-line news article on the newly installed MAGNUS scanner and its many promising applications. Prof. Steve Williams of the Center for Neuroimaging Sciences (not the other way as in Korea) appeared in a video, along with Dr. Flavio Dell'Acqua, to explain how the scanner is poised to open new fronts in human neuroimaging research.
