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Out of the Shadows — MRI and the Nobel Prize
John Gore, Ph.D.

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Cross-sectional imaging of the body has such an important role in the diagnosis of disease and the care of patients today that it is easy to overlook how recently the technology was developed and integrated into clinical practice. This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Paul Lauterbur (University of Illinois, Urbana) and Sir Peter Mansfield (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) for their invention of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) barely 30 years ago. It is a reminder of how far and how quickly the radiologic sciences have advanced (see Figure).

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