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MR scanner

noun

Computers, Medicine/Medical.
  1. a diagnostic device employing nuclear magnetic resonance to display computer-generated sectional images of the body, consisting of a large, body-encircling magnet that generates a strong, uniform magnetic field that interacts with radio waves to excite the nuclei of hydrogen atoms or other specific atoms, and a detection system that picks up the signals from the body and transforms them into a visual image.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of MR scanner1

First recorded in 1985–90
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Example Sentences

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While lying down with head immobilized in a small confined chamber of the notoriously noisy MR scanner, subjects are shown experimental stimuli.

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