# Advanced imaging technology measures magnetite levels in the living brain

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> **[Advanced imaging technology measures magnetite levels in the living brain](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181127171413.htm)**
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> Investigators have used magnetoencephalography -- a technology that measures brain activity by detecting the weak magnetic fields produced by the brain's normal electrical currents -- to measure levels of the iron-based mineral called magnetite in...

  
Investigators have used magnetoencephalography – a technology that measures brain activity by detecting the weak magnetic fields produced by the brain’s normal electrical currents – to measure levels of the iron-based mineral called magnetite in the human brain.