How to Use magnetic resonance in a Sentence

magnetic resonance

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Definition of magnetic resonancenext
  • Nilan had his blood and spinal fluids drawn and was scheduled for magnetic resonance imaging of his brain.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Our research team used magnetic resonance imaging, also known as MRI, to scan the brains of teens who had digital addiction.
    — David Rosenberg, Fortune Well, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The patents assert that diseases cause characteristic changes in the magnetic resonance patterns of all kinds of tissues.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2015
  • Local lore has long held that the magnetic resonance steers storms around Florida's capital city.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • In a second part of the experiment, 26 men played the same game while in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that monitored their brain activity.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • For example, in magnetic resonance imaging, the compass needles are protons in your blood.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 May 2024
  • Scientists have come up with a new way to test the viability of human sperm by using a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS).
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Meanwhile helium 4, which makes up most of the gas that fills party balloons and helps cool down magnetic resonance imaging machines, has two protons and two neutrons in each nucleus.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Zutshi says magnetic resonance is harmless, but the charger senses when any living animal gets within 1.25 inches of the pad.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
  • If more detailed imaging is needed, your doctor may order a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Glamour, 18 July 2023
  • Other diagnostic testing can include an X-ray or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to help determine the degree of the injury and which soft tissues or bones may be involved.
    — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 26 July 2024
  • The base has no magnetic resonance imagining equipment and Congress has forbidden the transfer to the United States of any Guantánamo detainee, not even for medical treatment.
    — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 2018
  • My second magnetic resonance defecography is in the subbasement of Mount Sinai.
    — Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, magnetic resonance imaging of his head found nothing.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
  • To determine what was going on, the team used magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a form of magnetic resonance imaging that enables researchers to detect levels of certain chemicals in the brain.
    — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The researchers confirmed that the participants had osteoarthritis by taking X-rays and using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to check for inflammation.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2023
  • To see what’s going on beneath the skin, doctors depend on an array of expensive imaging techniques—x-rays, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, endoscopy, etc.
    — Bysara Reardon, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
  • All were without dementia and cognitively unimpaired during testing and had undergone one of two types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • Researchers looked for post-treatment changes to participants’ magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) and cerebrospinal fluid.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 7 July 2023
  • Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the team also found that levels of GABA—the main chemical that inhibits signals in the brain—in participants' hippocampi predicted their ability to suppress thoughts.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • These also include magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the astronauts’ brains, as well as x-ray images produced by natural cosmic radiation streaming through their bodies.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In addition, nearly 9,000 of the participants also underwent magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, brain scans.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The team also repeated this experiment in a second group of 26 male volunteers who played the game while inside a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, allowing their brain activity data to be collected.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The participants reported their levels of fatigue, and researchers used magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to monitor their metabolic response throughout the study period, according to the study.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In our own local space-time continuum, a number of companies labor to make wireless power possible using a host of technologies, but there are two strategies that show a lot of promise, one using lasers, another using magnetic resonance.
    — Eric Wolff, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2010
  • Advances in medical technology like magnetic resonance imagining, which do not require cutting open a body, bolster a belief that autopsies are less necessary.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2021
  • Their work with long-term meditators included electroencephalography (EEG) and the first magnetic resonance imaging study of brain activity in such practitioners.
    — Matthew D. Sacchet, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • This road works by leveraging magnetic resonance induction, where copper coils embedded under the roadway transfer energy to a receiver installed on any electric vehicle—whether a Chevy Bolt or massive electrified bus.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The group recently submitted several abstracts to the leading magnetic resonance conference.
    — Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Once the material was collected, the scientists used magnetic resonance and spectroscopy, the dividing of light into wavelengths, to understand how much material absorbed a particular frequency of infrared light.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2018

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