Magnetic resonance imaging clinical applications

Wacker, F. K., Hillenbrand, C. M., Duerk, J. L. and Lewin, J. S. (2005) MR-guided endovascular interventions device visualization, tracking, navigation, clinical applications, and safety aspects. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America, 13(3), 431 —439. 

Neumann-Haefelin T, Moseley ME, Albers GW (2000b) New magnetic resonance imaging methods for cerebrovascular disease emerging clinical applications. Ann Neurol 47 559-570... 

Magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, is now firmly entrenched as a clinical tool of considerable importance. It is a non-invasive, non-radiative method that continues to see increasing application in the diagnosis and staging of many dis-... 

Johnson, C.D. Magnetic resonance imaging of the liver current clinical applications. Mayo Clin. Proceed. 1993 68 147-156... 

A review of cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance has been produced with 46 references. The use of NMR to study glycogen in exercise has been reviewed with many references. The quantification of the contribution of gluconeogenesis to glucose production in fasted human subjects, using stable isotopes and NMR, has been reviewed with 72 references. A review of the use of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in biomedicine has been produced with 180 references. The beginnings and later applications of NMR for clinical studies has been reviewed with 18 references. 

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is finding increasing application in areas that require microscopic resolution. While typical resolutions employed clinically are on the order of a millimeter, the notion of using MRI at microscopic resolutions arose... 

NMR has become an important tool in medical diagnosis because it allows physicians to probe internal organs and structures without invasive surgical methods or the harmful ionizing radiation of X-rays. When NMR was first introduced into clinical practice in 1981, the selection of an appropriate name was a matter of some debate. Because some members of the public associate nuclear processes with harmful radiation, the N was dropped from the medical application of NMR, now known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The spectrometer is called an MRI scanner. 

B.C. Chu, K. Miyasaka, The clinical application of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging to acute cerebrovascular disorders, No To Shinkei 50 (9) (1998) 787-795. 

Bonnemain, B. Superparamagnetic agents in magnetic resonance imaging physicochemical characteristics and clinical applications. A Review, Journal of Dmg Targeting 6, 167-174(1998)... 

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