Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a complex physical process based on the interaction of protons in an electromagnetic field, the most well-known and widespread application in medical-clinical and medical-surgical field being nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. Considering the interdependent relationship between research in scientific fields that are closely related to medicine and the medical world, it is particularly important to be aware of the existence of other applications of the physical process mentioned before: diffusionometry, relaxometry and MRI spectroscopy. These are well-known and studied research entities, but their applicability in the clinical diagnostic process is still limited, despite the huge potential to provide a much broader and more detailed perspective on various biological tissues in vitro, but even in vivo. We want to review the evolution of nuclear magnetic resonance tomography or imaging, which has gone from being a Nobel Prize-winning idea to one of the most widespread and useful methods of non-invasive and non-irradiating medical imaging, but especially an example of the feasibility of diffusionometry, relaxometry, respectively MRI spectroscopy in a medical setting, through global studies on their potential diagnosis in areas such as oncology, neurology, endocrinology and others.
Non-invasive analysis of bovine embryo metabolites during in vitro embryo culture using nuclear magnetic resonance
