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Early interest in the medical applications of magnetic resonance goes back to the late 1950s, when—it was then electron spin resonance (ESR)—differences were found in the signals obtained from tumors and normal tissue due to different concentrations of free radicals in them.(1) Preliminary forays were made into ESR imaging, but the frequencies of electromagnetic radiation required led to too much body absorption and scatter. The prospects for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in medical research were first discussed in 1972.(2)
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Mallard, J.R. (1990). Prospects for NMR Microscopy. In: Duke, P.J., Michette, A.G. (eds) Modern Microscopies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1467-7_8
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