PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL IMAGING- Mini-Review Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Retina: From Mice to Men

This mini-review provides an overview of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications to study rodent, cat, non-human primate, and human retinas. These techniques include T1- and T2-weighted anatomical, diffusion, blood flow, blood volume, blood-oxygenation level dependent, manganese-enhanced, physiological, and functional MRI. Applications to study the retinas in diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and retinal degener-ation are also reviewed. MRI offers some unique advantages compared with existing imaging techniques and has the potential to further our understanding of physiology and func-tion in healthy and diseased retinas. Magn Reson Me