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Some 15 years ago the physical principle of NMR spectroscopy, which again was discovered some 25 years earlier, was applied for the first time to obtain a cross-sectional image of water containing objects, in particular of biological tissues. It showed the intensity distribution of the emitted proton resonance radiation. This was the birth of the proton spin imaging or the magnetic resonance imaging.
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Luiten, A.L. (1988). Basic Facts and Recent Developments in MR Imaging. In: Falke, T.H.M. (eds) Essentials of Clinical MRI. Series in Radiology, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3279-1_1
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