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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by yummyfajitas on Monday July 13, 2009 @09:21AM (#701620)
The variable cost of MRI is scan time. The MRI technician needs to make a tradeoff: more time for higher quality image. I'm trying to get a better quality in the same time.

Big picture idea: the MRI doesn't spit out pictures, it spits out encoded pictures (the Fourier transform). Using a simple model of what bodies look like, I can dramatically narrow the search space when decoding the pictures.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by maryrosecook on Thursday July 16, 2009 @04:02PM (#708656)
Wow, that sounds amazing. Don't forget to emphasise the benefit to the patient, as well. Spending two hours in a small, hot tube when you've just had heart surgery is not fun.
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