Magnetism- MRI History Flashcards

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_______________ conceived the idea of echo planar imaging, which can rapidly scan the whole brain. He and his colleagues publish the first successful MRI of a living human body part- a finger
A) Peter Mansfield
B) Raymond Damadian
C) Michael Faraday
D) Sir Joseph Larmor

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A) Peter Mansfield

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_______________ discovered and developed the first rotating magnetic field.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. Michael Faraday

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D. Nikola Tesla

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________________ discovered that a current flowing through a wire could produce a magnetic field.
A. Sir Joseph Lamor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. Michael Faraday

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E. Michael Faraday

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In the year ____________, Schering’s _______________ IV Gadolinium contrast gets the first approval by the FDA.
A. 1977; Indomitable
B. 1981; Iodinatable
C. 1988; Magnevist
D. 1991; RARE

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C. 1988; Magnevist

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5
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The type of rock upon which magnetism was discovered is called?
A. Plutonium
B. Magnetite
C. Lodestone
D. Galactacite
E. B and/or C

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E. B and/or C

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_____________ developed equation showing precession of nuclear spins being proportional to magnetic field strength
A. Raymond Damadian
B. Felix Bloch
C. Richard Ernst
D. Sir Joseph Lamor

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D. Sir Joseph Lamor

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_______ and ___________ won the 2003 Nobel Prize in medicine for their work in the 1970’s developing MR imaging techniques and capabilities.
A. Faulkner; Roth
B. Faraday; Larmor
C. Lauterbur; Mansfield
D. Ernst; Damadian

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C. Lauterbur; Mansfield

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_______________ discovered that tumors and normal tissues can be distinguished by NMR because of their relaxation times.
A. Damadian
B. Lauterbur
C. Bloch
D. Larmor

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A. Damadian

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In _________, Damadian and his team constructed the first super conducting NMR scanner and produced the first image of the human thorax, which took almost 5 hours to scan.
A. 1946
B. 1952
C. 1977
D. 1981

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C. 1977

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10
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Functional MRI (fMRI) was developed in:
A. 1946
B. 1954
C. 1977
D. 1991

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D. 1991

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___________________ discovered that when a magnet was moved inside a coil of copper wire, a tiny electric current flows through the wire.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. Michael Faraday

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E. Michael Faraday

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______________ and _____________ won the Nobel Prize in 1952 for their invention of equipment which could measure the magnetic resonance in solids and fluids.
A. Lauterbur; Mansfield
B. Bloch; Purcell
C. Bloch; Maxwell
D. Larmor; Fourier
E. Faraday; Rabi

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B. Bloch & Purcell

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In 1975 _______________ introduced 2D NMR using phase and frequency encoding and the Fourier Transform
A. Raymond Damadian
B. Richard Ernst
C. Joseph Lamor
D. Felix Bloch

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B. Richard Ernst

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________________ developed the mathematical equation to analyze the heat transfer between solid bodies, later becoming the basis for the rapid processing of phase and frequency signals in MRI.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. Michael Faraday

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C. Joseph Fourier

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_______________ discovered that a charged particle, such as a proton, spinning around its own axis, has a magnetic field, known as magnetic momentum.
A. Paul Lauterbur
B. Felix Bloch
C. Raymond Damadian
D. Michael Faraday

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B. Felix Bloch

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________________ coined the word “electricity” and was the first to realize that the Earth was a giant magnet.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Nikola Tesla
C. Michael Faraday
D. William Gilbert
E. James Clerk Maxwell

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D. William Gilbert

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__________ developed equations describing how electric and magnetic fields are generated and altered by each other and by charges and currents.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. James Clerk Maxwell

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E. James Clerk Maxwell

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In the 1930s ____________________ detected and measured single states of rotation of atoms and molecules, determining the magnetic moments of the nuclei.
A. Felix Bloch
B. Richard Ernst
C. Isidor Isaac Rabi
D. Sir Joseph Larmor

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C. Isidor Isaac Rabi

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The SI unit of magnetic field strength is named after:
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Joseph Fourier
D. Nikola Tesla
E. Michael Faraday

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D. Nikola Tesla

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____________________ discovered the spin echo phenomenon for nuclear magnetic resonance measurements.
A. Sir Joseph Larmor
B. Hans Christian Oersted
C. Erwin Hahn
D. Raymond Damadian
E. Michael Faraday

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C. Erwin Hahn