This is a partial list of NMR and MRI resources available on the World Wide Web.  The content of these sites is not controlled or endorsed in any way by the ISMRM or SMRT.  If you have suggestions for additional sites, or one of the listed sites seems no longer functional, please let us know.

 
 Patient Care & Safety

• Brief overview for the public
• Information for Patients
      Patient video from IMRSER
• Safety video for non MR workers from IMRSER
• MR contrast agents - public comment on NSF
• Safety video for non MR workers from IMRSER
• MR contrast agents
• Regulatory issues for MRI in the UK (and Europe)
• Information for Patients
• Institute for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Education, and Research - Frank Shellock
• International MR Safety Central Web Site - Emanuel Kanal
• MRI Safety - Frank Shellock
• MR Safety & Patient Comfort - GE Medical Systems
• Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis or Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy (NSF/NFD)
• US Food & Drug Administration - MRI Safety
• US Food & Drug Administration - Guidance for Industry (Issued 14 July 2003)
• US Food & Drug Administration - Public Health Notification (Issued 10 May 2005)

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  Anatomy

• Skull anatomy tutorial

• Brain atlas

• Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Atlas

• LUMEN cross sectional tutorial

• University of Washington Anatomy Modules

• Methodology/Anatomy – MRI images with anatomical details pointed out, and features described based on weightings:

• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

• Pediatric Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) database
   

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  Artifacts

• MRI Tutor Web Site and Radiology Teaching Files

• MRI Artifacts - St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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  Education

Education: Technical NMR and MRI

• An Introduction to MRI Graham Wright, PhD - HTML introduction to MRI.
• All You Really Need to Know about MRI Physics, Moriel Nessaiver
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Cardiac MR teaching files
• CT & MRI Pathology
• http://www.e-mri.org/ - MRI Step by Step Interactive Course
• Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada
• MRI Q&A for Physicists
• www.mrinotes.com/ - MRI Physics Resource
• www.MRIreview.com - continuing education seminars, products, and information for techs.
• NMR Spectroscopy Concepts Scott Van Bramer, Widener University
• Stanford On-line CME Courses
• The Basics of MRI Joseph P. Hornak, PhD - an excellent Web based NMR/MRI intro book.
• Univ Hosp Penn/MRI Teaching Modules  - advertisement for teaching software.

Education: Clinical Teaching Files

• BrighamRAD Diagnostic Radiology
• CHORUS:Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology
• MedPix - 3,500 peer-reviewed cases with 14,000+ images - now with CME
• MRI Centre Teaching Files - The Bhatia General Hospital
• MyPacs - Free web-based teaching file authoring tool
• RadiologyWeb, monthly e-publication designed by and for practicing, teaching, and student radiologists.
• University of Iowa Virtual Hospital: Radiology Textbooks
• University of Michigan Health Systems - Division of MRI
  • Portal and Mesenteric MR Angiography
  • Renal MR Angiography
• Univ. of Washington Radiology Teaching Files - general Radiology teaching files
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

  Free Online Lectures First Year Medical Students Second Year Medical Students Fourth Year Medical Students Basic Chest X-ray Review Brain Tumor Locator Child Abuse HIV/AIDS and the Brain Neuroradiology

Education: MRI for the Public

• Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada
• Institute for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Education, and Research - Frank Shellock
• International MR Safety Central Web Site - Emanuel Kanal
• MRI Safety - Frank Shellock

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  Conferences

• ISMRM Conference Page
• Academy of Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting
• European Congress of Radiology
• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Annual Meeting

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  Methodology

• Brain MRI: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003791.htm 

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  MR Information

• PowerPoint Presentation: http://rad.usuhs.mil/rad/handouts/hood/mr_options

• www.auntminnie.com offers CE credits and “The Case of the Day”

• Glossary of MR definitions: http://fonar.com/glossary.htm

• Catherine Westbrook's site,  links to many other websites: www.mrieducation.com

• Adelaide Website: MR Education Sites & Resources -  www.users.on.net/vision/

• How MRI Works - http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/mri.htm
• Advanced NMR Spectroscopy: Principles & Applications - http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/organic/nmr.html

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  Pathology

• Atlas of Signs in Musculoskeletal Radiology

• MRI Centre Teaching Files - The Bhatia General Hospital

• SRS-X: The SRS Educational Resource (Cases that have MR images are: 3, 20, 22-26, 28, 67, 72, 75, 79, 84, 89-93, 95)

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  Publications: Journals

• Official journals of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine:
  Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Back Issues of JMRI on CD-ROM (Aries)

• Other journals on related topics:
  Applied Magnetic Resonance (Springer)
  Concepts in Magnetic Resonance (Wiley)
  Diagnostic Imaging
  International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
  Journal of Magnetic Resonance (Elsevier)
  Journal for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR)
  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Elsevier)
  Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry (Wiley)
  MAGMA: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (Springer-Verlag)
  NMR in Biomedicine (Wiley)
  Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Elsevier)
  Radiology

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  Physics

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine

• American Board of Medical Physics

• An Introduction to MR

• http://www.es.oersted.dtu.dk/~masc/resonance.htm

• MRI Q&A for Physicists

• Simply Physics

• The Basics of MRI: Joseph P. Hornak, Ph.D.

• West Physics Consulting, LLC

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  Related Organizations

• SMRT, Section for Magnetic Resonance Technologists

• ISMRM, The British Chapter

• ISMRM, The German Chapter

• Academy of Molecular Imaging

• American Association of Physicists in Medicine

• American Board of Medical Physics

• American College of Radiology

• American Heart Association

• American Liver Society

• American Medical Association (AMA)

• American Roentgen Ray Society

• American Registry of Radiologic Technologists

• American Society of Radiologic Technologists

• Association of Managers of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories

• British Association of MR Radiographers (BAMRR)

• Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists

• European Chinese Society for Clinical Magnetic Resonance

• European Congress of Radiology (ECR)

• European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology

• Health Professions Network

• Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories (ICAMRL)

• International Consortium for Medical Imaging Technology

• International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)

• Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

• Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (KSMRM)

• Magnetic Resonance Managers Society (MRMS)

• NMR Information Server

• Organization for Human Brain Mapping

• Radiological Society of North America

• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

• Society of Interventional Radiology

• Society of Non-Invasive Imaging in Drug Development

• Sociedad Mexicana de Radiología e Imagen (SMRI)

• Swiss Radiology Society

• www.brainmapping.org

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  Research Laboratories

• Angiogenesis Research Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University
• Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital
• Berkowitz Lab Home Page
• Biomedical Imaging Program (Univ. of Virginia)
• Biomedical NMR group of the Eindhoven University of Technology
• Brain Imaging Research Centre for Scotland
• Cancer Research Campaign Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group
• Cardiff/EMRIC
• Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan S. Kline Institute
• Center for Nuclear Imaging Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Center for EPR Imaging for In Vivo Physiology
• Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping
• Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University Medical Center
• Center for Medical Imaging and Visualization (CMIV)
• Center for Structural Biology NMR - University of Florida
• Centre for Magnetic Resonance (CMR) at the University of Queensland
• Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations
• Columbia University: Hatch NMR Research Center
• DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Frederik Philips Magnetic Resonance Research Center (Emory University)
• George Washington University: Cardiac MRI
• German Cancer Research Center, Interventional MRI
• Glasgow Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Unit (GCMRU)
• Guy's & St. Thomas Hospital (London, UK) - MR Physics Group
• Hyperpolarized Gas MRI Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Hull CMR Research Group
• Imaging Research Program at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
• Indiana University, Chemistry Department NMR Facility
• Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada
• Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
• Johns Hopkins University: Division of MR Research, Dept of Radiology
• Johns Hopkins University: Medical Imaging Lab
• Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing at the University of Hong Kong
• Medical College of Wisconsin, Biophysics: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• MRDAC Freiburg - Magnetic Resonance Development and Application Center, Freiburg, Germany
• MR Microscopy Imaging (Caltech) - Russell E. Jacobs, et al
• MRI Imaging Center Utrecht
• Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and associated Center for Advanced Brain Imaging
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida St University at Tallahassee
• NMR Unit of the National Institute on Aging, NIH
• North Queensland Magnetic Resonance Centre
  Ohio State University - MRI Facility
• Penn State Department of Radiology
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, MRI Research Center
• Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University
• Radiology Imaging Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
• St. Paul's Radiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Stanford Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory
• The MRI Institute for Biomedical Research - E. Mark Haacke, Director
• UCSF Magnetic Resonance Laboratory  - NMR, Thomas L. James, et al
• Universite Catholique de Louvain, Diagnostic Radiology, Brussels, Belgium
• University of Alabama at Birmingham -- Center for Development of Functional Imaging
• University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Nuclear Imaging Research (CNIR)
• University of Alberta - In vivo NMR facility
• University of Antwerp: Bioimaging Lab  
• University of Basel, MR-Physics
• University of Bern, Switzerland: MR Spectroscopy and Methodology
• University of Chicago MRI - David Levin et al
• University of Freiburg, Section of Medical Imaging
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign: Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
• University of Iowa, Department of Radiology
• University of Minnesota: Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
• University of Minnesota: Department of Radiology, Center for MR-Guided Therapy
• Université de Montréal, Canada, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy,  Department of Radiology
• University of Nottingham, Academic Radiology
• University of Nottingham, Magnetic Resonance Centre
• University of Queensland - Biomedical (MRI) Engineering
• University San Martin de Porres in Peru
• University of Verona, Center for Biomedical NMR
• The Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology
• Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

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  Resources for the MRI Professional

• The Association of Educators in Radiological Sciences outlines the knowledge needed for passing the registry and becoming a competent MRI technologist. You can find this information at www.aers.org .

• You can find the requirements for clinical experience at www.arrt.org, select the Examinations tab to the left and click on Clinical Experience Requirements.

• MICAD The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD) program

• ASRT www.asrt.org

• Health Professions Network

• OSRT www.osrt.org

• Receive updates and View archives: www.diagnosticimaging.com

• Web based NMR/MRI book w/ MRI basics: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/

• Access images/teaching files: www.mypacs.net

• Searching radiology peer-reviewed information:  http://www.searchingradiology.com

• MDL: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy database and depository containing the MR-properties of more that 350 metabolites

• Helpful links: http://www.t2star.com/

• Helpful links: http://www.advanced-tech-ed.com/

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  Software

• Chris Rorden's free MRIcro software for brain imaging with a software tutorial.
• Object Oriented Development Interface for NMR
• Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada
• Matlab Software (MRITool), University of Bologna
• Medical Image Volume Visualization Software
• MRI Cardiac Image Analysis Software
• NMR Image Reconstruction from Partial K-Space Data; HF in Visual C++; Software for Windows 95
• PSD diagram tool for Matlab --- Craig Jones, KKI/JHMI
• RadPix - Weadock Software, LLC
• V Multidimensional Signal Processing Package for Magnetic Resonance
• Xinapse Systems Limited

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  Technologists

• Allied Health Profession of the Month - April 2004  -  Magnetic Resonance Technology
  http://www.healthpronet.org/ahp_month/04_04.html

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  Tutorials

• www.mritutor.org

• Optimizing MSK protocols: http://rad.usuhs.mil/rad/minipath/mr_opmsk/minipath.html

• Breast imaging information (no images): http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~mrbreast/erasmus.html

• http://rad.usuhs.mil/radiology_toolbar.html

• Case study teaching files: http://www.uhrad.com 

• Protocols: http://www.med.umich.edu/rad/mribody 

• Case of the week, applications, etc.: http://www.gemedicalsystems.com/rad/mri/applications/apps_home.html

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  Links to NMR/MRI Sites

• The Adelaide MRI Website - Royal Adelaide Hospital MRI Unit

• Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory - Links - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

• Indiana University, Chemistry Department NMR Facility: Links

• International Society of Magnetic Resonance, ISMAR    www.ismar.org

• MRDAC -  Magnetic Resonance Development and Application Center - Freiburg

• MRI and Microcirculation

• University of York, Dept of Chemistry, NMR

• Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

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  Other sites of possible interest

• The Adelaide MRI Website - Royal Adelaide Hospital MRI Unit (scanning tips and protocols, etc.)
• All You Really Need to Know about MRI Physics, Moriel Nessaiver
• AtoZMedicine.com, General MR information
• Block Imaging International, Inc.
• Genesis Magnet Services, MR service and repair
• Health Professions Network
• Hull CMR Research Group
• Institute for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Education, and Research - Frank Shellock
• International MR Safety Central Web Site - Emanuel Kanal
• ISO Standards Glossary
• Low Field MRI - Kelvin Wong
• MagNET - Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation, Specification, Quality Assurance and Safety
• Med NEXUS
• Med Explorer: Medical Imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Periodic Table
• Magnetic Resonance - Technology Information Project
• MDL: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy database and depository containing the MR-properties of more that 350 metabolites
• MEDLINE via the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• MRI Physics, Basic & Advanced
• MRI Safety - Frank Shellock
• NCI Biomedical Imaging Program Home Page
• NIH Consensus Development Conference Statement on MRI (1987)
• NIH Home Page
• NLM Visible Human Project
• qMRI - Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• PET Centers
• The MRI Technologists Forum
• The Scientific American Home Page. Full articles, news, reviews, and much much more.
• TiP-Training in Partnership, a service of GE Medical Systems, offering Training Applications around the world
• Universal Currency Converter™

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