Comparison of MRI with dedicated head and neck signal amplification coil and cone beam computed tomography: MRI is a useful tool in diagnostics of cranio-facial growth disorders.

Objective: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows excellent image quality for the depiction of soft tissues and is therefore an important imaging technique in medical diagnostics. However, the practical simultaneous presentation of hard and soft tissue structures of the mouth, jaw and facial area is not fully satisfactory at this time. We investigated the image quality of 1.