ABSTRACT
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a clinically important medical imaging modality due to its exceptional so-tissue contrast. MRI was invented in the early 1970s [1]. e rst commercial scanners appeared about 10 years later. Noninvasive MRI studies are now supplanting many conventional invasive procedures. A 1990 study [2] found that the principal applications for MRI are examinations of the head (40%), spine (33%), bone and joints (17%), and the body (10%). e percentage of bone and joint studies was growing in 1990.
