You say MRI, I say NMR. These sound almost like William Steig would have used them, but not quite.
Chad over at Uncertain Principles give the lowdown on the phenomenon of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
[…] Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), which is the “M” and the “R” in “Magnetic Resonance Imaging”– they ditched the “N” because “nuclear” is scaaaary, and doctors are wusses.
Yeah, but tell your doctor that when he’s got a sharp instrument or weird probe-thingy in his hand.
Paul Lauterbur originally called it zeugmatography… so I’d say MRI was a nice change.
From Wikipedia: “Lauterbur attempted to file patents related to his work to commercialize it unsuccessfully. Stony Brook chose not to pursue patents, thinking that the expense would not pay off in the end. “The company that was in charge of such applications decided that it would not repay the expense of getting a patent. That turned out not to be a spectacularly good decision,” Lauterbur said in 2003.
My school is so dumb.