Andrei Matlashov, a member of the SQUID team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with the apparatus used to study MRI at ultralow magnetic fields. The copper coils that produce the magnetic fields are wound on wooden armatures to avoid the magnetic distortions caused by metal. Photo by LeRoy Sanchez.

Andrei Matlashov, a member of the SQUID team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), with the apparatus used to study MRI at ultralow magnetic fields. The copper coils that produce the magnetic fields are wound on wooden armatures to avoid the magnetic distortions caused by metal.

Photo by LeRoy Sanchez.