MIT Technology Review profiles live MRI imaging technology, an advance that's helping to visualize the brain in new ways during neurosurgery. As the article explains, the advance is opening doors ...

Eventually, MRI could provide a cheaper, higher resolution, non-radioactive alternative to the recently developed PET-PIB technique (see related news story) first used in humans last year. In PET-PIB ...

Doctors in Germany have captured a live birth by open MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) for the first time, offering insight into potential pregnancy complications, Berlin's Charite hospital said ...

Microscopic medical devices could one day be steered through a patient’s bloodstream using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, Canadian research suggests. In the study, researchers were ...

A new design has made it possible for a patient with an implanted stimulator to undergo MRI scans without the device tearing apart.

Charité Hospital in Berlin says today's MRI of a live birth--the culmination of two years of research as they built a scanner to fit the woman during labor--is a world first.

A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine has increased the debate over the efficacy of MRI vs mammography for breast cancer screening. Read a transcript of a discussion with an expert ...

The standardized assessment for Alzheimer's disease includes a brain scan, and it's called a structural brain scan that can be either an MRI or a CT scan. This allows the doctor to see whether ...