The Future of MRI Research

Cardiac MRI has helped hundreds of thousands of people with heart problems over the last 40 years. Dr Phoebe Kitscha learns more from three British Heart Foundation-funded scientists who are making progress in this area.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a type of medical scan first developed in the late 1980s. It uses a magnetic field and computer-generated radio waves to create detailed images of what’s going on inside the body. Over the past 40 years, cardiovascular MRI (often called cardiac MRI, or CMR for short) has helped advance our understanding of heart and circulatory conditions, enabled the development of new treatments, and has become an important tool for diagnosis.

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