A long-standing mystery about nuclear magnetic resonance has finally been solved, an advance that could lead to clearer MRI images for medical uses and could provide better control of atoms for ...

Alexandros Washburn, here with son Ali, received a novel prostate cancer treatment using very high doses of radiation guided by MRI. “This is an extraordinary tool — and in the hands of an ...

While MRI theory sees nuclei of hydrogen as miniscule bar magnets spinning in characteristic ways within magnetic fields, it originally ignored certain interactions between those spins, Warren said.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University chemists say they have developed a new way to measure temperature changes inside the body with unprecedented precision by correcting a ...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging – MRI – has revolutionised medicine with its sharp images of previously unseen interiors. But despite that success, only now have physicists solved a mystery about how it ...