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The Historical Development of Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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During 1972 Paul Lauterbur at the State University of New York at Stonybrook in the United States and Peter Mansfield at Nottingham University in the United Kingdom stumbled their way [1, 2] to the common realization that the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) could be used to create a two-dimensional map of the density of nuclear spins within a sample of material. The crucial insight, arising from the earlier work of Gabillard [3], was that when a magnetic field gradient is established across an object containing NMR-sensitive nuclear spins, for each position in space there corresponds a different frequency at which the spins resonate. Thus frequency analysis of the NMR signal could provide an indication of how many spins are to be found at any particular plane in space, corresponding to a given contour of the magnetic field; in short, a profile of the spin density in the object.

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Turner, R., Schmitt, F., Stehling, M.K. (1998). The Historical Development of Echo-Planar Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Echo-Planar Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80443-4_1

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