Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - also called magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) - is a method of creating images of the inside of opaque organs in living organisms as well as detecting the amount of bound water in 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 niche 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 http://www.mri.cl/index.pl/industrial_stud#355.

See also

• History of brain imaging
• Magnetic resonance force microscopy
• Nobel Prize controversies
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging