Doctors use a lumbar MRI scan to examine a person’s lower spine for problems. It is a painless and low risk procedure. Learn more here.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most commonly used tests in neurology and neurosurgery. MRI provides exquisite detail of brain, spinal cord and vascular anatomy, and has the advantage ...

A lumbar MRI scan uses magnets and radio waves to capture images inside your lower spine without making a surgical incision.

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published in Radiology.

Brain and/or spinal MRI were effective in detecting melanin in the central nervous system of children with suspected central nervous system abnormalities, according to study findings. “High ...

For about one in six people considered healthy with no reports of back pain, lesions were visible on MRI in the lower spinal column and sacroiliac joint, researchers said -- a sign that ...

Lee and his team have now performed 11 MRI-guided cryoablation procedures for spinal canal decompression, and a total of 76 MRI-guided cryoablations in the head, neck and spine. He believes that ...