[Nuclear magnetic resonance tomography and its significance for internal medicine according to the current state of knowledge. Literature review].

With nuclear magnetic resonance imaging the modern picture-producing techniques were enriched by a further non-invasive method giving tomograms of the interesting region free of overshadowing, which furthermore renders possible insights into certain metabolic processes taking place by means of enzymes containing phosphorus. With the help of a study of literature was elaborated which importance the method might obtain for the specialty of internal medicine according to the present state of knowledge in a greater clinical use to be expected, and which trends of application can be recognized according to the study of literature.