Quentin Herreros1,
Hadrien A. Dyvorne2, Paolo Campiglio1, Amala Demonti1,
Guenaelle Jasmin-Lebras1, Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur1,
Claude Fermon1
1CEA,
Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York,
NY, United States
Avoiding numbers of high field drawbacks, very low field MRI requires sensitive detection devices .We have developed a novel magnetic sensor based on a combination of spin electronics and superconductors, labelled mixed sensor, and reaching sensitivities in the fT range at low frequencies down to 1kHz. This mixed sensor was inserted in a small scale prototype system and in vivo images were successfully acquired at 7mT, showing high performance and versatility of the sensor for very low field MRI.