The picture becomes clear for magnetic resonance imaging
Useful Sites
Chickscope overview: MRI introduction for high school students (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
An explanation of how MRI uses magnetic fields to 'see' inside a body or another object. Scanning a chick embryo developing inside an egg is used as an example.
Brain imaging (Neuroscience for Kids, University of Washington, USA)
Briefly describes different procedures for imaging brains (computed tomography, positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and functional magnetic resonance imaging) and gives the advantages and disadvantages of each.
A life saving window on the mind and body: The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Beyond Discovery, National Academy of Sciences, USA)
Explores how basic physics research over the last 70 years contributed to the development of MRI and functional MRI. (A text file of the complete article is available.)
Picturing the body – fMRI: watching the brain at work (The Exploratorium Magazine, USA)
Explains that functional MRI allows researchers to visualise the brain's functions and processes.
Nobel Prize.org, Sweden
Press release: The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Describes the discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging that led to the 2003 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Poster: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
Presents the research on magnetic resonance imaging that won a Nobel Prize.
History of MRI (University of Manchester, UK)
Describes the development of MRI as a medical imaging technique from initial nuclear magnetic resonance experiments in the 1940s.
Page updated August 2006.