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Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Department in Westcott, Buckinghamshire. After national service, he studied at night school for the qualifications that gave him entrance, in 1956, to Queen Mary College, University of London, where he studied physics.
Sir Peter’s early work was in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), then being used to study the chemical structure of substances. He joined the Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, in 1964, and by the early 1970s was working on the application of NMR to imaging that led directly to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He and his team showed how the radio signals from MRI could be mathematically analysed, making possible their interpretation into useful images. A medical diagnostic application was further progressed by the development of a rapid imaging technique called echo-planar imaging. The team presented their first human image (of Mansfield’s abomen) in 1978. For his work in the development of MRI, Mansfield was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003, which he shared with Paul Lauterbur of the United States.
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1. School days in south London from 2009-06-24T10:46:19
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen1. School days in south London from 2009-06-24T10:46:19
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen14. Safety - protecting patients from 2009-02-24T10:27:23
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen13. Resolution - higher magnetic fields, faster imaging from 2009-02-24T10:26:29
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen12. Resolution - the limits of functional imaging from 2009-02-24T10:25:56
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen4. Queen Mary College, London University, 1956-64 - the beginning of Nuclear Magnetic from 2009-02-24T10:08:06
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen15. Acoustic Screening – noise control from 2009-02-23T12:35:17
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen6. Nottingham University, 1964 – first NMR images from 2009-02-23T12:34:08
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen11. Gradient Coil Screening stabilises the magnetic field, necessary for imaging, 1986 from 2009-02-23T11:41:40
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen10. The world’s first Magnetic Resonance Imagine (MRI) movie, 1982 from 2009-02-23T11:41:13
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen9. The race to image the body, 1978 from 2009-02-23T11:40:48
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen7. Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) from 2009-02-23T11:40:29
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen8. How EPI works from 2009-02-20T12:54:47
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen5. First spin echoes in solids from 2009-02-20T12:48:47
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen3. Night school and a job in rocketry from 2009-02-20T12:45:54
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
Listen2. No qualifications but ambitious to become a scientist from 2009-02-20T12:44:14
Sir Peter Mansfield was born on 9 October 1933 and grew up in London. He left school at fifteen to become a printer’s assistant before obtaining a government post at the Rocket Propulsion Departmen...
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