Of all the high-tech medical gadgets we read about often, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine is possibly the most mysterious of all. The ability to peer inside a living body, in a minimally ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a painless, noninvasive scan that uses a magnet, radio waves, and a computer to create detailed images of organs and tissues. MRIs are a powerful tool used to ...

GW Hospital is proud to be the first adult-care hospital in the metropolitan Washington–Northern Virginia region to add MRI-guided focused ultrasound to its intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging ...

Xin Zhang, an BU College of Engineering distinguished professor of engineering, leads a team that hopes to expand access to MRI scans, making them faster—and cheaper. By allowing clinicians to look ...