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  title info:
    title: Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI
  name:
    name part: Dawson, M. Joan
    name part: 1944-2017
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Ebooks.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "On September 2, 1971, the chemist Paul Lauterbur had an idea that would change the practice of medical research. Considering recent research findings about the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals to detect tumors in tissue samples, Lauterbur realized that the information from NMR signals could be recovered in the form of images -- and thus obtained noninvasively from a living subject. It was an unexpected epiphany: he was eating a hamburger at the time. Lauterbur rushed out to buy a notebook in which to work out his idea; he completed his notes a few days later. He had discovered the basic method used in all MRI scanners around the world, and for this discovery he would share the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003. This book, by Lauterbur's wife and scientific partner, M. Joan Dawson, is the story of Paul Lauterbur's discovery and the subsequent development of the most important medical diagnostic tool since the X-ray. With MRI, Lauterbur had discovered an entirely new principle of imaging. Dawson explains the science behind the discovery and describes Lauterbur's development of the idea, his steadfastness in the face of widespread skepticism and criticism, and related work by other scientists including Peter Mansfield (Lauterbur's Nobel co-recipient), and Raymond Damadian (who famously feuded with Lauterbur over credit for the ideas behind MRI). She offers not only the story of one man's passion for his work but also a case study of how science is actually done: a flash of insight followed by years of painstaking work."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Epiphany in a hamburger -- Portrait of a scientist as a young man -- Study, work, and war -- Early breakthroughs -- The 1960s : Stony Brook, Stanford, and spectrometers -- The first fruitful weeks -- The worldwide laboratory -- Baby grows up -- Among the corn fields -- The end and the beginning.
  note: M. Joan Dawson.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Description based on opening page (viewed Dec 07, 2017).
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lauterbur, Paul C
      name part: 1929-2007
  subject:
    topic: Magnetic resonance imaging
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    topic: instrumentation
  subject:
    topic: Inventors
  subject:
    topic: Nobel Prize
  classification: RC78.7.N83 D39
  classification: WZ 100 D272p 2013eb
  identifier: 9781461939023
  identifier: 146193902X
  identifier: 1299814476
  identifier: 9781299814479
  identifier: 0262316714
  identifier: 9780262316712
  identifier: 9780262316705
  identifier: 0262316706
  identifier: 9780262316729
  identifier: 0262316722
  identifier: 9780262019217
  identifier: 0262019213
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 130830
    record change date: 20190418084924.0
    record identifier: in00004540159
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng