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Role of MRI in medical diagnostics

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well-established imaging modality capable of providing high resolution structural and functional images of tissues of in the human body. MRI is also relatively safer than some of the other imaging modalities such as X-ray CT and PET with respect to ionization. In this article, we discuss the basic working principles and role of MRI in the diagnosis of diseases of head and neck, breast, cardiac, abdomen and musculoskeletal system to provide an overview of the diagnostic and/or prognostic potential and capability of MRI in the clinic.

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Rashmi Rao is pursuing her master’s thesis at the Medical Imaging Research Centre, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bengaluru. Her research interests include magnetic resonance fingerprinting and low field MRI instrumentation.

Ramesh Venkatesan is a principal engineer with Wipro-GE Healthcare, Bengaluru. His areas of interest include novel acquisition, reconstruction, quantitative imaging and workflow automation algorithms for magnetic resonance imaging.

Sairam Geethanath heads the Medical Imaging Research Centre, Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bengaluru. His research interests include accelerated MRI and costeffective NMR/MRI instrumentation.

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Rao, R., Venkatesan, R. & Geethanath, S. Role of MRI in medical diagnostics. Reson 20, 1003–1011 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-015-0268-2

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