Advancing Molecular and Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Imaging

磁共振成像为推进医学成像研究提供了巨大的机会。与大多数其他医学成像方式不同，MRI可以使用各种各样的对比机制，每一种机制不仅提供关于解剖结构的独特信息，还提供关于生理功能和生化的独特信息。尤其是随着化学位移成像技术的最新发展和超极化代谢核磁共振的出现，使用核磁共振技术进行分子和代谢成像的机会大大增加。

Magnetic Resonance Imaging offers tremendous opportunities for advancing medical imaging research. Unlike most other medical imaging modalities, MRI can use a wide variety of contrast mechanisms, each of which provides unique information about not only anatomical structure, but also physiological function and biochemistry. The opportunities for using MRI techniques for molecular and metabolic imaging in particular have dramatically expanded with recent developments in both chemical shift imaging techniques and the advent of hyperpolarised metabolically MRI.