MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: the procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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Lopez rushed her back to the emergency room, where an MRI revealed a diagnosis of transverse myelitis, a rare inflammatory disorder affecting the spinal cord.
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Leondra Head, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
He is expected to have an MRI on Sunday.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
The researchers analyzed more than 61,000 MRI scans from a large UK health database to better understand the muscle’s structure.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Seeing robots live inside To overcome these challenges, the researchers developed a multi-frequency dual-echo (MFDE) MRI sequence that reduces repetition time to just 30 milliseconds.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
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Leondra Head, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
He is expected to have an MRI on Sunday.
—Janis Carr, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
The researchers analyzed more than 61,000 MRI scans from a large UK health database to better understand the muscle’s structure.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026
Seeing robots live inside To overcome these challenges, the researchers developed a multi-frequency dual-echo (MFDE) MRI sequence that reduces repetition time to just 30 milliseconds.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
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MRI
noun
: magnetic resonance imaging
also
: a procedure in which magnetic resonance imaging is used
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