Nobel Prize for Medicine won by a Nottingham physicist |
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We are absolutely delighted that Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, who has been a member of the School of Physics & Astronomy for nearly 40 years, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, recognising the huge part that this brilliant physicist played in the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This award is joint with Professor Paul Lauterbur. |
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| In the early 1970’s, Sir Peter's vision allowed him not only to understand how to transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance into a medical imaging technique, but also to foresee what would be required to make the technique clinically useful and to identify early on many of the potential areas of application for MRI in clinical medicine. Over the following decades he has been driven to realise these potential applications, with his work often being years ahead of its time. He is responsible for the introduction of new understanding of important aspects of the physics of NMR and image formation, as well as the invention of many of the techniques and features of the scanner equipment that were needed to make clinical MRI a reality. |  |
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