Importance of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

The possibility of exploring the interior of the body has further expanded curiosity about its functioning, and the technology developed through nuclear magnetic resonance has open a wide range of possibilities towards this innovative field of research, even more so for the one oriented towards the discovery of the great mysteries that surround the brain and the mind. In all its functionality, this image construction technique through the emission and capture of magnetic fields between the machine and the various components of the The body allows a series of possibilities for humanity, among which: 1) diagnosis of the multiple affectations, injuries and diseases that afflict the body physical; 2) study of the evolution of the physical condition both in health and in illness; 3) detection and detailed exploration of masses and organic malformations; 4) observation of the functioning of neural impulses and brain activity; and 5) faster and more assertive actions in the diagnosis and intervention processes in emergency conditions.

Invading less and less

The safety provided by the procedure for obtaining images of the interior of the body through nuclear magnetic resonance, offers the opportunity to maintain the patient or the subject under study for a much longer period than any other mechanism, which has made possible the development of deeper exploration processes for the investigation of the various health problems that otherwise could not be detected or understand each other

The search for increasingly effective methods, which reduce both the time for the conclusion of a diagnosis and the expense on the part of the patient, and which in turn provide as much information as possible to medical and imaging specialists about the internal conditions of various organs and tissues, for years became one of the main priorities of medical engineering, prevailing over all the above, the need to represent the least risk potential, both for patients and for health personnel, betting on the implementation of knowledge of electromagnetic physics of which there is still much to develop.

Revealing the mysteries of the mind

One of the largest uses outside the emergency area of ​​hospital centers, in which it is taking advantage of the increasingly innocuous study through nuclear magnetic resonance, is in the scientific field dedicated to the mind. Psychiatry, psychology and neurology have managed to make their way towards what is now known as neurosciences, where they have brought together all their knowledge of Theoretical basis for the practical search for the answers to the greatest mysteries that the brain and the mind hide and that now this technology allows to do them visible.

Being able to understand then how mental processes are produced at the neuronal level has represented for science and medicine the opportunity to focus their gaze on the recovery of neurological conditions, both of the brain itself and of the other structures of the nervous system, which were previously considered impossible due to the slowness of neurodegenerative processes and the lack of information on how the various brain areas actually interact, becoming thanks to the visibility that nuclear magnetic resonance has given them in the greatest resource towards the development of new technologies based on robotic engineering to overcome multiple disabling conditions, such as missing or paralyzed limbs, blindness and deafness, and various brain damage of congenital origin or traumatic.

More advances in science

Other important applications of the information obtained through the use of nuclear magnetic resonance are in the areas of education, marketing and advertising, since as the mechanisms under which the mind operates are discovered, the possibilities of take advantage of them to optimize the facts in which the mind and the senses play the determining role on decision making, being able to influence these at a conscious, unconscious and subconscious level, according to the intention with which the stimuli have been created to offer a certain receiver.

In this way, knowing which specific area of ​​the brain is stimulated with this or that perception translates into the development of forms and resources that are increasingly geared to the desired responses, a phenomenon that at the advertising level is used to provoke the fact of acquiring a good, product or service, while in education it begins to open the doors to the orientation of teaching-learning processes that are increasingly pleasant and effective, with a greater potential for overcoming the difficulties of learning.

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