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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Abstract

Although the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance was first reported in the 1940s (Bloch et al. 1946; Purcell et al. 1946), its potential for clinical imaging was not recognised for a further quarter of a century (Lauterbur 1973). At about the same time, Damadian (1971) observed that cancerous tissues examined in vitro have different magnetic resonance characteristics from those of normal tissues. It is only in the past few years, however, that magnetic resonance imagers capable of giving good quality images of the whole body have been developed. Assessment of the usefulness of this new technology is, therefore, still at a relatively early stage (Franken et al. 1986; Kent and Larson 1988), particularly when compared with other imaging techniques such as plain radiography and radionuclide bone scanning.

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  1. Imperial Cancer Research Fund Clinical Oncology Unit, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    R. D. Rubens BSc, MD, FRCP (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    I. Fogelman BSc, MD, FRCP (Consultant Physician) (Consultant Physician)

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Richards, M.A. (1991). Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Rubens, R.D., Fogelman, I. (eds) Bone Metastases. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3254-7_5

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