{"id":8366,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/magnetic_resonance_imaging_-mri\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:56","slug":"magnetic_resonance_imaging_-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/magnetic_resonance_imaging_-mri\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on magnetic fields and pulsed radio frequencies without ionising radiation, it is a class of techniques that use the static or changing properties of polar molecules in the brain, such as haemoglobin, to visualise its structures, or activity in structures. &nbsp;Also used to estimate body composition, specifically images of fat, muscle and bone tissues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"brain_-neuro--_imaging\">Brain (neuro-) imaging<\/a>, <a href=\"dual_x-ray_energy_absorptiometry_-dexa-\">Dual x-ray energy absorptiometry (DEXA)<\/a>, <a href=\"electromagnetic_fields\">Electromagnetic fields<\/a>, <a href=\"functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging_-fmri-\">Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)<\/a>, Resting-state MRI, <a href=\"structural_imaging\">Structural imaging<\/a>, Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on magnetic fields and pulsed radio frequencies without ionising radiation, it is a class of techniques that use the static or changing properties of polar molecules in the brain, such as haemoglobin, to visualise its structures, or activity in structures. &nbsp;Also used to estimate body composition, specifically images of fat, muscle and bone tissues.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/magnetic_resonance_imaging_-mri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}