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Hydrogen protons are used in MRI because of their abundance.
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Hydrogen protons are used in MRI because of their abundance.

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Because of that but also because of its magnetic properties.

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But its abundance in water and fat, since Magnetic Resonance Imaging uses our own body's magnetic properties to produce the images, and for this is much better to use something that is abundant in our own body and has magnetic properties, that is, and hydrogen nucleus ( single proton), being useful since it behaves like a small magnet.

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