Because the word "nuclear" is baaaaaaddd..
MRI stands for ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging’.
It was once known as NMR which stands for ‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance’.
But the word ‘nuclear’ in medicine was deemed distracting and not fitting for the art of medicine. So the invention was changed from NMR to MRI.
Because the word "nuclear" is baaaaaaddd..
Appears to be untrue- I had a NMR in 1983. it said “NMR” on the machine and on my test prescriptions for the procedure-
It was known as “NMR” Nuclear Magnetic Resonance coz the atomic nucleus spins and spins back, when it was already a medical device COMMERCIALIZED and used in hospitals as “NMR”, not an invention name changed, but the actual medical device name was was changed after so many years [in late 1990`s]of use on patients- duhhhhh- been there, been NMR`d couple times,- “MRI” is propaganda name to give people a “comfort zone”-
MRI (NMR) spectroscopy was pioneered by a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois — Champaign/Urbana by the name of Herbert Gutowsky.