MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES AND CLINICAL APPLICATION
Keywords: Magnetic Resonance, Imaging, Radiology, X-rays, NDT
ABSTRACT
The Advances in equipment and knowledge related to radiology are occurring at an astonishingly rapid rate. On November 8, 1895, William Conrad Roentgen discovered x-rays. In 1972, Godfrey Hounsfield and George Ambrose introduced computed tomography at a meeting of the British Institute of Radiology. In the same year, Paul Lauterbur published the idea of spatially resolving nuclear magnetic resonance samples, naming it "zeugmatography". In 1977, Waldo Hinshaw and Co-workers published a magnetic resonance image of a human hand and wrist, and by 1981 several centres were obtaining clinical magnetic resonance (MR) images. In a very short time, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has gained acceptance as a clinically useful imaging tool.
Publication Source: Trends in NDE Science & Technology; Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, New Delhi, 8-13 December 1996.Vol. 1, pages 241 - 244 Publisher:Ashgate Publishing Company
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