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MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Pronunciation (US):

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Meaning:

Resonance of electrons or atoms or molecules or nuclei to radiation frequencies as a result of space quantization in a magnetic field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("magnetic resonance" is a kind of...):

resonance (an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "magnetic resonance"):

NMR; nuclear magnetic resonance; proton magnetic resonance (resonance of protons to radiation in a magnetic field)

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Also called magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, and NMRI.

(Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Dictionary)

Also called magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging.

(NMRI, NCI Dictionary)

Also called 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.

(MRSI, NCI Dictionary)

Also called magnetic resonance perfusion imaging.

(Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Dictionary)

Also called: Magnetic resonance imaging, NMR, Nuclear magnetic resonance

(MRI Scans, NIH)

Chelates of gadolinium are frequently utilized as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents and can be used to track nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery.

(Gadolinium-Chelate, NCI Thesaurus)

Gadolinium texaphyrin is also used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to help find cancer cells in the body.

(Gadolinium texaphyrin, NCI Dictionary)

Gadopentetate dimeglumine may provide contrast enhancement during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of intracranial lesions with abnormal vascularity or of abnormalities in the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

(Gadopentetate dimeglumine, NCI Thesaurus)

The anhydrous form of gadofosveset, an injectable, intravascular, amphiphilic gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) used with magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) imaging.

(Gadofosveset Trisodium Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

It may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy, improve tumor images using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and kill cancer cells.

(Motexafin gadolinium, NCI Dictionary)