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NMR Imaging: An Appraisal of the Present and the Future

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Since its conception by Lauterbur in 1973 and independently by Mansfield and Grannell (1975), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging has grown rapidly to become a viable clinical imaging modality that is now the method of choice for many applications (Kressel 1985; Stark and Bradley 1988). NMR imaging (often referred to as magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) times have decreased dramatically from hours to milliseconds and resolutions have improved in certain cases from centimeters to microns. A dramatic range of information is available from the technique that sets it apart from all other imaging modalities in terms of its flexibility, and we are still on the growing curve in terms of NMR imaging techniques and applications. The drive behind this virtual explosion of techniques has been the noninvasive nature of NMR imaging and its implications with respect to the diagnostic study of the human body. Most NMR imaging concerns the observation and spatial mapping of the hydrogen nucleus (1H) in water, since water is the most abundant material in the human body and consequently 1H gives the most signal with respect to other resonant nuclei.

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Blackband, S.J. (1989). NMR Imaging: An Appraisal of the Present and the Future. In: Anderson, J.H. (eds) Innovations in Diagnostic Radiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83413-4_5

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