A Celebration of 25 Years of Clinical MRI

September 1^st and 2^nd 2005,
Kings College Converence Centre,
University of Aberdeen

In 1980 the physicists in the Department of Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering completed construction of a whole body nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanner.

With the development of spin-warp imaging by Doctors J Hutchison and W Edelstein the imaging available from the new NMR scanner was good enough to recognise all the main organs of the body.  In the late summer of 1980 the physicists approached Dr F W Smith, a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at that time, to help evaluate this new scanning method.  After examining a number of normal volunteers to learn the normal appearances Dr Smith started scanning patients with known diseases to see if the NMR technique would be useful.  The first patient was scanned on the 26^th August 1980 demonstrating that NMR could diagnose malignant tumours in the liver and bones.   Over the intervening 25 years NMR (or MRI as it became known in the late 1980’s) has developed into high resolution MR imaging and is now an integral part of every major diagnostic imaging department in the world.

 

We bring together these early pioneers in this technology to celebrate the silver anniversary of the first clinical patient scanned using this technique and provide an insight into the history of MRI in Aberdeen over the past 25 years.

 

Thursday 1 September 2005 - Public Lecture

 

6.00pm

 

Chairman - Professor Fiona J Gilbert

 

The History of MRI, from NMR to MRI    Professor James MS Hutchison PhD

 

The History of Clinical MRI                    Professor Francis W Smith MD

 

7.00pm            Drinks Reception

Friday 2 September 2005 -  Scientific Session

From Low Field to High Field

 

0930-1000      Registration

 

Chairman - Professor Fiona J Gilbert

 

1000                Spin Warp Imaging                               Professor James MS Hutchison

 

1030                NMR to MRI – 1981 Lecture                 Professor Francis W Smith

 

1100                Commercial Development                     Professor William Edelstein

 

1130                Coffee

 

Chairman – Dr Alison D Murray

 

1200                Functional Imaging in Psychiatry            Professor Klaus Ebmeier

 

1230                Surgical application of MRI                    Mr John Pollet 

 

1300                Lunch

 

Chairman – Professor Francis W Smith

1400                Dynamic, contrast-enhanced MRI of brain tumor hemodynamics    Dr Glyn Johnson

 

1430                Development of high field MRI                Dr Linda Eastwood                 

 

1500                7 Tesla Research                                    Professor Hiroo Ikehira

 

1530                Close