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SUMMARY FIGURE GLOBAL MARKET FOR MRI SYSTEMS BY REGION, 2010 AND 2015 (%) 6
Chapter-3: OVERVIEW
HISTORY 7
MECHANICS OF THE MRI 7
MAGNETS 8
Resistive Magnets 8
Permanent Magnets 8
Superconducting Magnets 8
Gradient Magnets 9
COILS 9
Coils for Specific Applications 9
Total Imaging Matrix 10
REFURBISHED COILS 10
TABLE 1 GLOBAL MARKET FOR MRI COILS, THROUGH 2015
($ MILLIONS) 10
RF TRANMITTER OR SOLENOID 11
SHIELDS 11
Magnetic Shielding 11
CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS 11
CONTRAST AGENTS 12
Chelates of Gadolinium 12
Iron Oxide 13
Manganese Chelates 13
TABLE 2 PROJECTED GLOBAL MARKET FOR SALES OF MRI
CONTRAST MEDIA, THROUGH 2015 ($ MILLIONS) 13
COMPUTER SYSTEM 13
MRI PROCESS 13
CONTRAST AGENTS IN MRI 14
USES 15
TYPES OF MRI SCANS 15
BASIC MRI SCANS 15
TABLE 3 BASIC MRI SCAN, BY TYPE, WITH APPLICATTION 16
T1-Weighted MRI 16
T2-Weighted MRI 16
T*2-Weighted MRI 16
Spin-Density-Weighted MRI 17
SPECIALIZED MRI SCANS 17
TABLE 4 SPECIALIZED MRI SCAN, BY TYPE, WITH APPLICATION 17
Diffusion MRI 17
Magnetization Transfer MRI 18
Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) 18
Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) 18
Magnetic Resonance Gated Intracranial CSF Dynamics (MR-GILD) 19
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) 19
FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI) 19
INTERVENTIONAL MRI 20
INTRAOPERATIVE MRI 20
RADIATION THERAPY SIMULATION 20
MAGNETIC RESONANCE GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND (MRGFUS) 20
MULTINUCLEAR IMAGING 20
SUSCEPTIBILITY-WEIGHTED IMAGING (SWI) 21
MRI AND CT ATTRIBUTES 21
STRENGTHS/LIMITATIONS OF CT 21
STRENGTHS/LIMITATIONS OF MRI 21
TABLE 5 STREN
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