Medicine Net: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Resource presents the use and risks of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology as used in medicine.

This Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center site offers a comprehensive look at MRI exam phases, preparation, technology, equipment, safety, and research. Images and labeled diagrams are also provided on this site.

When you have the most powerful MRI machine in the world, there's a lot of exciting research going on. Read about some of the cutting-edge studies we do on neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, tobacco use, muscles and more.

Explore Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and find out how an MRI can see inside the body.

Now that MRIs have been around for a few decades, patients and doctors tend to take them for granted. But these awesome diagnostic tools, powered by strong superconducting magnets, save countless lives with their ability to pinpoint...

In MRI, magnetic fields and radio wave pulses combine to get a unique, and medically beneficial, response from your body's hydrogen atoms. Take a peek in this tutorial.

An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan is a painless test that creates detailed pictures of the inside of the body. [2:29]

Read about Raymond V. Damadian, inventor of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and learn how the MRI has impacted the field of medicine.

Chemist Paul Lauterbur pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for medical imaging. He developed a technique, now known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), in the early 1970s that involves the introduction of gradients in...

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) presented evidence that MS is a progressive disease from its onset. By using the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) researchers have discovered MS can be active when symptoms...