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| Annual Lecture
The IET Annual Healthcare Technologies Lecture and Dinner
This event took place on 2 October 2007
Speaker: Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS
Lecture Title - Some Developments in MRI
Following an initial description of his early days in MRI the talk focused on patient safety aspects and discussed novel developments in the control of acoustic noise and also the control of electric fields.
About Sir Peter
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Sir Peter Mansfield obtained his first degree in Physics and his PhD in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at Queen Mary College, University of London. His supervisor was Professor J G Powles who went on to be the Foundation Professor of Physics at the University of Kent in Canterbury (now retired).
After his PhD Sir Peter went to the University of Ilinois at Urbana, USA, to work with Professor C P Slichter on NMR in metals. Following a two year sojourn in the states he returned to England to work in the Physics Department at the University of Nottingham. He took a one year sabbatical leave in 1972-3 to work with Professor Karl Hausser at the Institut für Medicinische Forschung in Heidelberg. Sir Peter was awarded the Nobel Prize in October 2003. This was awarded in recognition of the part he played in the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). |
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