MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: the procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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Often associated with party balloons, helium is indispensable to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, aerospace and the manufacture of microchips for artificial intelligence.
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
The Timberwolves announced before their game on Tuesday against the Phoenix Suns that Edwards would be re-evaluated in one to two weeks, after the sixth-year guard underwent an MRI exam.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Helium is also a crucial element in medicine, used to cool MRI machines, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Yet standard neurological imaging, such as MRI scans, almost never detects abnormalities, and most physicians, who understand the symptoms’ basis in only the most rudimentary sense, can offer little useful counsel.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
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Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
The Timberwolves announced before their game on Tuesday against the Phoenix Suns that Edwards would be re-evaluated in one to two weeks, after the sixth-year guard underwent an MRI exam.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
Helium is also a crucial element in medicine, used to cool MRI machines, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Yet standard neurological imaging, such as MRI scans, almost never detects abnormalities, and most physicians, who understand the symptoms’ basis in only the most rudimentary sense, can offer little useful counsel.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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