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History Of MRI Flashcards

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a noninvasive medical imaging technique that uses the interaction between radio frequency pulses, a strong magnetic field and body tissue to obtain images of slices/planes from inside the body.

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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discovered the Rotating Magnetic Field in Budapest, Hungary.!This was a fundamental discovery in physics.

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Nikola tesla,1882

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The __ for measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field B) was named in Tesla’s honour at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris in 1960.

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SI unit tesla (T)

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1 tesla =

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10,000 (or 104) gauss (G)

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__ = US Congress and WHO Recommended limit
for constant human exposure = __

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200 nanotesla, 2mG

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an operation that transforms one function of a real variable into another. is a mathematical procedure to separate out the frequency components of a signal from its amplitudes as a function of time

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Fourier transform

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calculates the time domain from the frequency domain.

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Inverse fourier transform (IFT)

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First to recognize the existence of the __ , an uncharged and massless particle that carries off energy in radioactivity.

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Wolf gang ernst pauli, neutrino

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states that no two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.

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Pauli exlcusion principle

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In particle physics, __ are particles which obey Fermi-Dirac statistics; they are named after __.

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fermions, Enrico Fermi

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1900 -1988 a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. In 1925, introduced the concept of a spinning electron, with resultant angular momentum and a magnetic dipole moment arising from the spinning electrical charge.

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George eugene uhlenbeck

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1937 Columbia University Professor __ working in the Pupin Physic Laboratory in New York City, observed the quantum phenomenon dubbed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He recognized that the atomic nuclei show their presence by absorbing or emitting radio waves when exposed to a sufficiently strong magnetic field. Published “A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment” in 1938, where the first MR signal from LiCl was reported. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944.

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Isidor I.Rabi

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Dutch Physicist In September 1937, he and his co-worker Broer, reported unsuccessful attempts to observe nuclear magnetic resonance in pure crystalline materials. First to demonstrate the phenomenon of paramagnetic relaxation.

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Cornelius Jacobus Gorter

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1907 – 1976 a Soviet physicist. discovered electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944.

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Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky

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1946 discover magnetic resonance phenomenon. Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by __ and __. __ (Stanford University) and
__ (Harvard University) developed instruments, which could measure the magnetic resonance in bulk material such as liquids and solids.

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Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell

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The year often regarded to as the birth of MR

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1952

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creates a one-dimensional MR image.

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Herman Carr

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Same book puts the year commonly regarded as the year in which MR was discovered as __.

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1946

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1956 The “Tesla Unit” was proclaimed in the Rathaus of Munich, Germany by the __ . All MRI machines are calibrated in “Tesla Units”. The strength of a magnetic field is measured in Tesla or Gauss Units. The stronger the magnetic field, the stronger the amount of radio signals which can be. elicited from the body’s atoms and therefore the higher the quality of MRI

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International Electro-technical Commission-Committee of Action

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First to demonstrate clinical MR images of a human finger using his technique. Showed how signals can be mathematically analyzed which later gave way to EPI technique in 1977. EPI (echo-planar imaging) was the first ultra high-speed imaging technique.

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Peter mansfield

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were awarded with the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

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Paul lauterbur and petermansfield

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Give at least 3 of Peter mansfield contribution

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NMR diffraction in solids, Slice selection, Active magnetic shielding of gradient coils, Echo volume imaging, Active acoustic shielding methods that lower noise levels produced by gradient coils

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was Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Aberdeen from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. He is known for his and his colleague’s work in the development of radionuclide imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and, in particular, positron emission tomography (PET).

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John mallard

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The whole body magnet was first built by __ In cooperation with the __; started in 1972 under the direction of __ and led by __. Originated the “spin-warp” method of spatial localization for MRI, T1 values for normal and malignant animal and human tissue were presented

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Oxford Instruments Ltd, University of Aberdeen, John Mallard, James Hutchison

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a physician and experimenter working at Brooklyn’s Downstate Medical Center discovered that hydrogen signal in cancerous tissue is different from that of healthy tissue because tumors contain more water. More water means more hydrogen atoms. When the NMR machine was switched off, the bath of radio waves from cancerous tissue will linger longer then those from the healthy tissue.

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Raymond damadian, 1971

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applies for a patent which describes the concept of NMR being used for above purpose. He illustrates major parts of MRI machine in his patent application

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Raymond damadian, 1972

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a chemist and an NMR pioneer at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, produced the first NMR image. It was of a test tube.

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Paul lauterbur, 1973

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referred to the joining together of a weak gradient magnetic field with the stronger main magnetic field, allowing the spatial localization of 2 tubes of water. Introduced the use of gradients in the. magnetic field.

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Zeumatography

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Raymond damadian receives his patent

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1974

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Richard Ernst proposes using phase and frequency encoding and Fourier transform for acquisition of MR images. Instead of Paul Lauterbur’s back- projection, he timely switched magnetic field gradients . This basic reconstruction method is the basis of current MRI techniques.

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1975

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First images could be presented. A cross section through a finger by Peter Mansfield and Andrew A. Maudsley. Peter Mansfield also could present the first image through the abdomen.

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1977/78

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Raymond Damadian demonstrated MRI of the whole body.

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1977

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In this same year, Peter Mansfield developed the echo-planar imaging (EPI) technique. This technique will be developed in later years to produce images at video rates (30 ms / image)

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1977

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nearly five hours after the start of the first MRI test, the first human scan was made as the first MRI prototype.

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July 3,1977

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demonstrated imaging of the body using Ernst’s technique in __. A single image could
be acquired in approximately five minutes by this technique

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Edelstein and coworkers, 1980

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Schering submitted a patent application for Gd-DTPA dimeglumine.

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1981

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The first ‘magnetization-transfer’ imaging by?

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1982, robert N. Muller

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Toshiba obtained approval from the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan for the first commercial MRI system.

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1983

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FONAR Corporation receives FDA approval for its first MRI scanner.

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1984

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the imaging time was reduced to about five seconds, without sacrificing too much image quality. The same year people were developing the NMR microscope, which allowed approximately 10 mm resolution on approximately one cm samples.

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1986

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introduced RARE (rapid acquisition with
relaxation enhancement) imaging.

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1986: Jürgen Hennig, A. Nauerth, and Hartmut Friedburg (University of Freiburg)

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Axel Haase, Jens Frahm, Dieter Matthaei, Wolfgang Haenicke, and Dietmar K. Merboldt (Max-Planck-Institute, Göttingen) developed the __ (__) sequence

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FLASH (fast low angle shot)

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Le Bihan publishes an article in Radiology, which describes diffusion weighted imaging (DWI).

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1986

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Real time MR imaging of the heart is developed

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1987

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echo-planar imaging was used to perform real-time movie imaging of a single cardiac cycle. In this same year __ was perfecting magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), which allowed imaging of flowing blood without the use of contrast agents.

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1987, Charles Dumoulin

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Schering’s MAGNEVIST gets its first approval by the FDA

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1988

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Richard Ernst was rewarded for his achievements in pulsed Fourier Transform NMR and MRI with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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1991

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describe imaging of axonal transport of supermagnetic metal oxide particles, a technique, which later becomes important in imaging of neural tracts.

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1991, filler and colleagues

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In __ , __ was developed independently by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) and
Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH)
MR Center.

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1991, fMRI

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was developed. This technique allows the mapping of the function of the various regions of the human brain. Six years earlier many clinicians thought echo- planar imaging’s primary applications was to be in real-time cardiac imaging. The development of fMRI opened up a new application for EPI in mapping the regions of the brain responsible for thought and motor control.

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1993, functional mri

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The first intraoperative MR unit developed by GE and Harvard is installed in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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1994

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From __ to __ Fonar was paid for the infringement of it’s patents from ‘nearly every one of its competitors in the MRI industry including giant multi-nationals as Toshiba, Siemens, Shimadzu, Philips and GE’.

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1992, 1997

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In addition to research centers and large hospitals, small remote hospitals and imaging centers begin to utilize MRI predominantly for neuroimaging and musculoskeletal imaging

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1990s

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developed the first truly portable MRI technology and made MRI technology available in the office of the clinician

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1999, magneVu

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Cardiac MRI, Body MRI, fetal imaging, functional MR imaging are further developed and become routine in many imaging centers. Research centers make significant strides forward in imaging cartilage on high field scanners. The number of free standing MRI centers, most of which utilize low or moderate field MR scanners significantly increases.

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2000s

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