What has been the most important advance in clinical MRI?
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What has been the most important advance in clinical MRI?
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There have been a wide range of advances in MRI technology in recent years, giving even more reason to be proud of yet another superb imaging technique developed in the UK (by Lauterbur and Mansfield,
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What has been the most important advance in clinical MRI?
posted at 2/8/2012 10:56 AM BST
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There have been a wide range of advances in MRI technology in recent years, giving even more reason to be proud of yet another superb imaging technique developed in the UK (by Lauterbur and Mansfield, but not forgetting the contributions by Damadian from NY in the US). It is amazing to think how far we have come from 1977: look at the first published human MRI image of the chest from that same year, which has a scientific beauty all of its own, knowing how revolutionary the technique would become...  But extra-ordinary leaps and bounds have enabled all kinds of advances: High field imaging (here 7T)... Diffusion tensor imaging...  leading to...  Gating technology allowing for cardiac cycle capture...  (motion gif too large, sorry!) Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)  Vertical and open MRI...  ...and much more, such as rapid sequence acquisition and volume acquisition techniques and the development of contrast media. So, what do you think has been the most important advance in clinical MRI? And why? How has it impacted on your specialty?
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Re: What has been the most important advance in clinical MRI?
posted at 2/8/2012 4:15 PM BST
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Although most will go for the different developments of the MRI such as cardiac cycle capture, MRS,etc., allow me this time to be less sophisticated, because all these are expected to emerge from the technological point of view. However. one of the most problematic issues with MRI for patients is the closed MRI with its feeling of someone being squeezed into a tube, small cave, pigeon hole, you name the description... and subsequent panic attacs of some patients, some so bad you have to administer anasthesia. So, for those and for the others who are not thin enough, the open MRI is a great solution.
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