CT Scanning out? NMR Zeugmatography in?

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 . . .