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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can build much smaller NMR machines with same or even better resolution. And MRT as well.

Currently those are big machines that fill rooms. If you can build smaller machines, you can maybe even make portable versions (but then the question of mobile electricity and cooling are needed to be solved). But better resolution in MRT means health problems could be detected earlier (because the problem is still smaller but can now be detected) or that measuring could be done faster, meaning more people could be helped in the same time. For research it means you can measure faster as well, meaning you can get bigger datasets. So more things for researcher to analyze. Or experiments can now be done, that before were deemed as taking to much time on the machine and therefore weren't allowed.

There are a lot of NMR experiments that take a long while to do and better magnets might enable to finally do them .