The word "nuclear" was dropped from MRI (nee NMRI) to improve its influence. And, surprisingly, I was even able to find significant documentation of this fact [

The word "nuclear" was dropped from MRI (nee NMRI) to improve its influence. And, surprisingly, I was even able to find significant documentation of this fact [1], I was honestly expecting it to be folklore at best. Though my own research [2] kind of contradicts the idea that 'nuclear' was ever a popular part of the name. Or maybe it was [3], I dunno. [1] http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1407&context=facpub http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar... [2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=NMRI%2CMRI%2C+NMRI&year_start=1960&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CNMRI%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CMRI%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNMRI%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=NMRI%2CMRI%2C+... [3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nuclear+magnetic+resonance%2C+magnetic+resonance+imaging&year_start=1960&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cnuclear%20magnetic%20resonance%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmagnetic%20resonance%20imaging%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nuclear+magnet...