The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of renal abscess was investigated in an experimental animal model. MRI is capable of depicting the location and extent of the inflammatory process using T1 weighted scans because of relatively long T1 relaxation values which were significantly longer than T1 relaxation times of adjacent normal renal parenchyma.
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