ABSTRACT
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the major tools of the clinical diagnostician, and the biomedical researcher, and offers a nondestructive three-dimensional view of parts of the human or animal body. MRI is intrinsically a digital imaging technique whereby the image is composed of numbers representing signal intensity in each of a particular set of volume elements (voxels) spanning the sample. Moreover, MRI is more than a tomographic method because it allows operators to obtain physiological information and displays the activity of a living brain. In the entry, the basics of MR imaging is reviewed, and current state of the art regarding MRI possibilities is discussed.
