Clinical applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

The History of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

“…This is among the first cardiac NMR studies to be published. Reproduced with permission from Goldman et al (11). LAD ϭ left anterior descending artery; NMR ϭ nuclear magnetic resonance; TTC ϭ triphenyltetrazolium chloride.…”

“…NMR was clearly gaining scientific momentum, as it was highlighted in a Disease-a-Month volume on NMR imaging (11). A review group for the American Medical Association (AMA) chaired by the author wrote a series of articles on NMR for the various organ systems imaging for the Journal of the American Medical Association (12).…”

Commentary: A picture is worth a thousand words: Improving surgical approaches using advanced multimodal cardiac imaging

“…2 A better understanding of intracardiac structures and cardiac function was first established by the introduction of echocardiography in 1954. 3,4 This was followed by the arrival of nuclear medicine, [5][6][7] cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), [8][9][10] and coronary computed tomography (CT). 11,12 In addition to providing more information, each of these modalities has enhanced the precision and detail that can be accessed by cardiologists and cardiac surgeons.…”