Video Clips of Professor Sir Peter Mansfield on YouTube
School days in south London
No qualifications but ambitious to become a scientist
Night school and a job in rocketry
Queen Mary College, London University, 1956-64 - the beginning of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
First spin echoes in solids
Nottingham University, 1964 – first NMR images
Echo Planar Imaging (EPI)
How EPI works
The race to image the body, 1978
The world’s first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) movie, 1982
Gradient Coil Screening stabilises the magnetic field, necessary for imaging, 1986
Resolution - the limits of functional imaging
Resolution - higher magnetic fields, faster imaging
Safety - protecting patients
Acoustic Screening – noise control
New science and the continuing struggle to get published
