I didn't call it nuclear magnetic resonance imaging,

不会将它称为核磁共振成像
I called it magnetic resonance imaging or MRI.

而把它叫做磁共振成像简称为MRI
That's the common name that's used for making medical images

这是用该方法进行医学成像时
using this particular physical approach.

更常用的名称
Why do you think the name was changed

你们觉得为什么
from nuclear magnetic resonance to MRI during the 1980s

在二十世纪八十年代这项技术开始应用时
when this technique started to be used in people?

要将名称由核磁共振改为磁共振
Anything with nuclear doesn't sound so good.

任何与核有关的东西听上去都有危险
You don't want anything with nuclear done to you,

人们不愿与任何核相关的技术发生牵连
probably because of other uses of nuclei

这种担忧可能源于其它应用原子核的技术
and concerns about nuclear sources of energy and that kind of thing,

或者对核能以及类似问题的关注
so the name was changed.

所以这项技术就改名了