Kidney stone disease (urolithiasis) is not only very painful, but can also pose serious health risks, when the fragmentation of infected kidney stones releases bacteria, that may cause post-operative sepsis. In this work we show the ability of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discriminate between common types of kidney stones using relative signal intensity and T2* relaxation times.
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