Measuring Up: The Phantom of the Library

The value of MRI can be dramatically increased by making its output more quantitative so that images become maps of important tissue properties. To help achieve those goals, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) in collaboration with the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a unique service that provides MRI research centers and clinics with access to NIST-traceable reference standards. Source: NIST.