texts: topic: Radiology  <s> mri stands for magnetic resonance imaging and nmr stands for nuclear magnetic resonance, which is when nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re emit electromagnetic radiation. they have a lot in common but im not exactly sure how similar they are, if i had to guess i would say nmr is a type of mri
labels: Oh okay, I had hear that it was the other way around. That an MRI is a type of NMR, but since they didn't want to freak out patients they dropped the "nuclear" part and made it MRI instead.