Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Keywords for MRI as used to image the brain. Formatted for EMBASE

An initial attempt to produce a search string for a comprehensive but not exhaustive (routine) search:

“19FMRI” OR “arterial spin label*” OR “arterial spin tag*” OR “ASL perfusion” OR “ASL method*” OR “ASL technique*” OR “aslMRI” OR CEST OR “chemical exchange saturation transfer” OR cestMRI  OR “cineMRI” OR “dceMRI” OR DKI OR “diffusion tensor tractography” OR dscMRI OR DTI  OR DTT OR “dynamic susceptibility contrast” OR F19MRI OR FLAIR OR  “fluid-attenuated inversion recovery” OR “fMRI” OR “imaging, magnetization transfer” OR “iMRI” OR “intra-voxel incoherent motion” OR IVIM-DWI OR IVIMDWI OR IVIMMRI OR dwMRI OR dwiMRI OR “resonance angiogra*” OR “resonance thermometry” OR “resonance tomogra*” OR “resonance tractogra*” OR “resonance venogr*” OR “mpMRI” OR “MRI” OR “magnetic resonance” OR “resonance imaging” OR rfMRI OR rsfMRI OR SWI OR T1WI OR T1-WI OR T2WI OR T2-WI OR “T2-weighted” OR “T1-weighted” OR ((“spin label*” OR “spin tag*” OR “susceptibility contrast”) NEAR/5 (imag* OR perfus* OR techniq* OR method* OR MR)) OR ((“BOLD venogra*” OR kurtosis OR “diffusion tensor*” OR “diffusion weight*” OR DSC OR echo-planar OR echoplanar OR intra-voxel OR “incoherent motion” OR IVIM OR “perfusion weight*” OR “magnetization transfer” OR “magnetisation transfer” OR PRF OR PRFS OR “proton resonance frequency” OR T1-weight* OR T2-weight*) NEAR/5 (imag* OR MR OR MRT OR NMR)) OR ((“contrast enhanc*” OR tractogra* OR thermometr* OR tomogr* OR angiogr* OR venogr* OR imag* OR multi-parametric OR multiparametric) NEAR/5 ( MR OR NMR)) OR ((PRF OR PRFS OR “proton resonance frequency” OR “proton resonant frequency” OR “proton resonance shift” OR “proton resonant shift” OR MR ) NEAR/5  (thermometr*)) 


Search terms were derived from the EMTREE heading list and synonyms lists.