magnetic resonance imaging

English

Noun

magnetic resonance imaging (uncountable) (abbreviated as MRI)

1. (medicine) A technique that uses nuclear magnetic resonance to form cross sectional images of the human body for diagnostic purposes.

Synonyms

• MRI

Coordinate terms

• nuclear magnetic resonance

Derived terms

• functional magnetic resonance imaging

Translations

technique — see also MRI

• Armenian: մագնիսառեզոնանսային շերտագրություն (magnisaṙezonansayin šertagrutʻyun), մագնիսառեզոնանսային տոմոգրաֆիա (magnisaṙezonansayin tomografia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核磁共振成像 (hécí gòngzhèn chéngxiàng), 磁共振成像 (zh) (cí gòngzhèn chéngxiàng)

• Finnish: magneettikuvaus (fi)
• German: Magnetresonanztomographie (de) f
• Hungarian: mágnesesrezonancia-képalkotás (hu)
• Icelandic: segulsneiðmyndun f, segulmyndherming f
• Portuguese: imagem por ressonância magnética f
• Romanian: imagistică prin rezonanță magnetică f, tomografie prin rezonanță magnetică f
• Russian: магни́тно-резона́нсная томогра́фия (magnítno-rezonánsnaja tomográfija)
• Spanish: imagen por resonancia magnética

See also

• positron emission tomography
• computed axial tomography
• fluoroscopy
• X-ray