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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a technique for visualizing the internal structure of soft solids, tissues and liquids. Applications range from medicine, e.g. tumor detection, study of blood flow, brain functional mapping, to material science (wetting profiles in drying concrete) and fluid dynamics (rheology of polymer solutions).

The Department of Physics of the University of Notre Dame operates a 7 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility. The imager has a vertical, super-wide bore magnet with interchangeable probes and gradient sets. Proton tuned RF probes are available from 3 mm to 64 mm diameter. Proton and separate broadband amplifiers are also available for heteronuclear imaging or non-proton imaging between 6 and 300 MHz.