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How MRI took shape

Титульна AI-концептуальна реконструкція ранньої дослідницької системи MR-зображення / AI conceptual reconstruction of an early experimental MR imaging setup.

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Документальне MRI-зображення головного мозку / documentary brain MRI image. Original page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_MRI.jpg. Source: Dr. Leon Kaufman, UCSF; released by the U.S. National Cancer Institute; photographer not identified. Public domain as a U.S. federal government image; credit NCI / UCSF. No edits. Modern/contextual result, not a 1977 scan.

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Титульна AI-концептуальна реконструкція ранньої дослідницької системи MR-зображення / AI conceptual reconstruction of an early experimental MR imaging setup.

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MRI took shape through several related contributions. In 1973, Paul Lauterbur published a method for producing spatial images with nuclear magnetic resonance; Peter Mansfield developed mathematical and technical methods that made such imaging more practical. The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to them for discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging. Separately, in 1977 Raymond Damadian, Michael Goldsmith, and Lawrence Minkoff published an account of the first chemical image of a living human: a cross-section of the chest produced with their FONAR system.