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MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, once called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMR). The word “nuclear” was dropped off about 20 years ago because of fears that people would think there was something radioactive involved, which is not.
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Das, B.K. (2015). Basic Principles of MR Imaging. In: Das, B. (eds) Positron Emission Tomography. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2098-5_21
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