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MRI Measures Heart Attack Size

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BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 21 -- Researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in animal studies to measure with 94 percent accuracy the size and amount of heart muscle damaged by a heart attack, known in medical terms as a myocardial infarct. The Johns Hopkins University development, if confirmed in humans, could standardize how physicians currently gauge the severity of a heart attack and a patient's chances for recovery. A variety of methods, such as visual cues, are used to determine the size of an infarct by MRI, but these have been shown in previous studies to overestimate damage by...Read full article

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    Published: December 2004
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    magnetic resonance imaging
    An imaging technique used in radiology that is based on the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to produce high-quality images of the inside of the human body by imaging the nuclei of atoms within the body.
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