Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.
    

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MRI scan; brain cancer (primitive neuroectodermal)

MRI scan; brain cancer (astrocytoma)

MRI scan; brain cancer (glioma), brain stem

MRI scan; brain cancer (glioma), corpus callosum

MRI scan; cancer of the pituitary gland

From Thales to Lauterbur, or from the lodestone to MR imaging : magnetism and medicine / M.R. Mourino.

Love at first sight investigation.

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MRI scan; cancer of the pituitary gland

MRI scan; brain cancer (astrocytoma)

MRI scan; brain cancer (glioma), corpus callosum

From Thales to Lauterbur, or from the lodestone to MR imaging : magnetism and medicine / M.R. Mourino.

Love at first sight investigation.