External Links
Joan Dawson – Paul Lauterbur and the Invention of MRI
Sonny Kleinfeld – A Machine called Indomitable (about Raymond Damadian)
Sir Peter Mansfield – The Long Road to Stockholm
eMagRes History of MRI Series
Donald Longmore – The Rise and Fall of the NHS
British Chapter of ISMRM
ISMRM
The Radiological Research Trust – small grant funding for innovative UK MRIS projects
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An essential visit to see some early MRI systems and many other medical developments over time at the Science Museum. South Kensington….
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ISMRM Gold Medal Winners
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Graeme Bydder discusses brain findings in pregnancy
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What to expect for your MRI scan
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Fully open MRI allowing standing, sitting and load bearing studies by Raymond Damadian’s FONAR company.
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One for the children…
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Not recommended for your MRI!
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Nice bedside manner!
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Left click and move your cursor for a 360 degree view of the MRI scan room
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Upgrading an MRI
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Watch the Helium escape and the magnetic attraction disappear when the quench button is pressed
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Ankle dynamic scans to diagnose movement problems
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Giving a whole new meaning to ‘Spin’
Doug Blakeley’s Historical Picture Archive of Picker and Philips MRI
Stan Clough’s Space Time Blog – a new take on Einstein’s Theories of Relativity
Niche Neonatal & Extremity MRI in the Wellcome Medical Exhibit at the Science Muesum
Neonatal MRI in evaluation at Sheffield
Neonatal MRI in Sheffield on the BBC News
Donald McRobbie’s MRI Blog
MRI Lectures
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Unfortunately there is no Part 2 yet describing how Imaging works but this is a great explanation of basic Magnetic Resonance and how Contrast is generated….
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A great tutorial by Miki Lustig
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Some basic MRI sequences in clinical use
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Different MRI contrast mechanisms
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Some of the problems encountered with using MRI
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How CT and MRI scans are interpreted
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Lectures on the rapidly developing fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to intrepret MRI scans
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Interesting talk on studying neonatal brain development using MRI
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Registering in-Utero images to remove motion artifacts.
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Great lecture on MR Spectroscopy
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Kamil Urgubil on measuring brain function at a Gil Navon celebration
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Quantitative MRI in extremity imaging
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Image reconstruction with sparse data
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More image reconstruction issues
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MRI Fingerprinting – a new way to do quantitative MRI
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Multi-Modality MR combined with radioactive tracer method Positron Emission Tomography (MR-PET)
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High resolution brain structure and function from Bob Turner
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Lung MRI by Peder Larson
MRI and Music
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Guitar music as an analogy for the MRI process
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Incredible classic music played using sound waveforms to drive the MRI gradients which act like loudspeakers
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Incredible changes in the vocal tract when singing measured in real time using a fast imaging sequence
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A fantastic demonstration of vocal changes with different singing styles – excellent voice too!
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A beautiful rendering of a Brian Eno song ‘By This River’ from inside an MRI scanner – the singing and harp would be recorded outside the scanner due to the loud gradient noise!
Other History & Music Websites
Martyn Paley’s Mystery History from UK Place Name Endings
https://brontebluesclub.org.uk
https://www.blackhillbarrowboys.com/
MRIS History UK website hosted by Imaging Systems Design Ltd