title: Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine.
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging provides exciting new perspectives of a broad variety of conditions, including spinal tumors, disc disease, bony changes and degenerative disorders. This technology provides a view of anatomic and pathologic changes in the spinal cord without exposing the patient to ionizing radiation. Disease processes identified only indirectly by other imaging modalities can now be directly identified by magnetic resonance imaging.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis