Editorial: The Safety of High-Field MRI?

The last two decades have witnessed dramatic development in medical and dental imaging, which gave practitioners clinical facility and comfort to patients. MRI is often considered as a fast and noninvasive diagnostic modality that can be used on entire human body, especially for the central nervous system, musculoskeletal system, head and neck, abdomen and pelvic examinations. MRI is useful in examination of craniomaxillofacial area. Unlike the routine x-ray-dependent techniques, MRI requires special equipment such as a separate room, which isolates the area from radiowaves with Faraday cage, strong magnetic fields (static and variable) generated by superconductors, and radio frequency equipment (transmitter, receiver coils and amplifier).