Clinical and research applications of magnetic resonance imaging.
In medicine, as in science and engineering, magnetic resonance imaging has become an invaluable tool; in certain applications it has already become the preferred diagnostic technique.  The author briefly reviews the principles of magnetic resonance as they apply to diagnostic imaging, describes several of the more important clinical applications of the technology, and discusses some areas of investigation that may lead to future medical imaging uses.
Laurie Imaging Center, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
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