CT Scanning out? NMR Zeugmatography in?
- 16 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 298 (11), 634
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197803162981124
Abstract
To the Editor: Recently, there has been a great deal of controversy concerning the swiftness with which the computed-tomography (CT)-scanner technology was adopted by the health-care system in the United States.1 2 3 Now, a group of British physicists from the University of Nottingham has described a new form of medical imaging called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) zeugmatography (from zeugma [Greek] — that which is used for joining).4 The principle of zeugmatography was described in 1973.5 Images are classically formed by the interaction of an electromagnetic field with an object. Electromagnetic waves can resolve a detail of an object if their wavelength . . .Keywords
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