Magnetism- MRI History Flashcards
_______________ 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
A) Peter Mansfield
_______________ 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
D. Nikola Tesla
________________ 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
E. Michael Faraday
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
C. 1988; Magnevist
The type of rock upon which magnetism was discovered is called?
A. Plutonium
B. Magnetite
C. Lodestone
D. Galactacite
E. B and/or C
E. B and/or C
_____________ 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
D. Sir Joseph Lamor
_______ 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
C. Lauterbur; Mansfield
_______________ discovered that tumors and normal tissues can be distinguished by NMR because of their relaxation times.
A. Damadian
B. Lauterbur
C. Bloch
D. Larmor
A. Damadian
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
C. 1977
Functional MRI (fMRI) was developed in:
A. 1946
B. 1954
C. 1977
D. 1991
D. 1991
___________________ 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
E. Michael Faraday
______________ 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
B. Bloch & Purcell
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
B. Richard Ernst
________________ 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
C. Joseph Fourier
_______________ 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
B. Felix Bloch