Interpretation and clinical application of magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is examined with reference to image choice and interpretation, its use in systematic disease evaluation, as well as in differential and comparative diagnosis, and new technical developments in this area. It is concluded that the MRI technique provides a wide variety of information whose full potential is yet to be explored. Even though the physics of image interpretation is more complex than for any other imaging technique, the multiparametric nature of MRI, its lack of ionizing radiation, and its capacity to image in any plane are likely to lead to an increasing role in medicinal diagnosis over the next decade