Magnetic resonance microscopy

Top: MRM image of mouse muscle fibers stained with ferric ammonium citrate, scale bar 200 μm. Bottom: conventional micrograph showing the MRM coil.[1]

Magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM, μMRI) is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at a microscopic level down to the scale of microns.[2] The first definition of MRM was MRI having voxel resolutions of better than 100 μm.[3]

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  2. ^ Sharma, R (2009). "Microimaging of hairless rat skin by magnetic resonance at 900 MHz" (PDF). Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 27 (2): 240–55. doi:10.1016/j.mri.2008.06.013. PMID 18775619.
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