Magnetic resonance imaging

A community portal about Magnetic resonance imaging with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Magnetic Resonance Imaging , formerly referred to as Magnetic Resonance Tomography or, in chemistry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , is a method used to visualize the inside of living organisms as well as to detect the composition of geological structures. It is primarily used to demonstrate pathological or other physiological alterations of living tissues and is a commonly used form of medical imaging. MRI has also found many novel applications outside of the medical and biological fields such as rock permeability to hydrocarbons and certain non-destructive testing methods such as produce and timber quality characterization. The scanners used in medicine cost approximately $1 million USD per Tesla for each unit, with several hundred thousand dollars per year for maintenance. A man from Fraserburgh, Scotland, with terminal liver cancer become the first patient in the world to receive an MRI body scan in Aberdeen, U.K.

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Gadolinium

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From: www.jlbreport.com

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently asked manufacturers of all Gadolinium-based contrast agents to include a new boxed warning on the product label. These contrast agents are used to enhance the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and can place patients at risk for developing a potentially fatal disease known as Nephrogenic Systemic [...]

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