The introduction of clinical magnetic resonance imaging in Australia

The Medical Journal of Australia
W Sorby, H Baddeley

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging is a new, but expensive, modality that is being introduced into clinical use in Australia. While it promises increased safety and accuracy in many situations, its precise role when compared with computed tomography and other modalities is not fully established. Therefore, a Government financed evaluation of costs and efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging units in five teaching hospitals is to be conducted over two years (1986-1988). Experience with the introduction of computed tomography to Australia and other nations has revealed difficulties in the evaluation by conventional methods of a diagnostic technology that is improving rapidly; it is to be hoped that a systematic evaluation of the clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging will be more achievable and useful. Open cooperation between the Commonwealth and State Governments and the medical profession in this evaluation should lead to a rational policy for the clinical availability of magnetic resonance imaging within Australia in the future.

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