MRI

M agnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a process developed in the 1980's as a way to identify tissue abnormalities. It is, essentially, the same thing as NMR, but patients were frightened by the term "nuclear." The basis of MRI is that hydrogens in water behave differently in different tissues. By placing the patient's body between the poles of a large electromagnet, the variations of a proton's magnetic resonance behavior from normal patterns may be detected and used to make a diagnosis.