Professor David Lurie

PhD, DUniv (honoris causa), FInstP, FIPEM, FISMRM

Emeritus Professor

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Email Address: d.lurie@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

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Biography

Since my retirement in October 2021, I have been an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. I previously held a Chair in Biomedical Physics at the University (2002-21), where I researched and taught MRI Physics, starting when I joined Jim Hutchison’s team in 1983.

My research was concerned with the development of MRI technology and its bio-medical applications, most recently in the area of Fast Field-Cycling MRI, which was pioneered by the group that I led. Whereas standard MRI scanners operate at a single magnetic field (e.g. 1.5 T or 3 T), FFC scanners have the ability to switch magnetic field rapidly during a scan, thereby obtaining information on the variation of the NMR relaxation times with magnetic field strength. Results indicate that this can provide a valuable new contrast mechanism for clinical MRI.

During my career I obtained research grants totalling over £11.1m as Principal Investigator. In 2015 a consortium of seven research laboratories and two companies, coordinated by me, secured €6.60m (£5.92m) from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 scheme to develop FFC-MRI as a clinical imaging modality; the “IDentIFY” project ran for 4 years from January 2016.

I have given over 100 invited, keynote and plenary lectures at conferences and workshops world-wide. I am author of 90 peer-reviewed papers, 8 book chapters as well as 290 conference abstracts.

My CV can be found here and my bibliography is available here.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Natural Philosophy
1979 - University of Aberdeen
MSc Radiation Physics
1980 - University of London
PhD Medical Physics
1984 - University of London

External Memberships

I am Past Chair of the Communications and Publications Committee of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), having been Chair from January 2020 to February 2022.

Prizes and Awards

In 2017 I was awarded the Academic Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
In 2021 I was awarded Senior Fellowship of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
In 2022 I was given an Honorary Doctorate (D.Univ., honoris causa) by the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Publications

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Prizes and Awards

Young investigator award presentation at the 13th annual meeting of the ESMRMB, September 1996, prague a proton-electron double-resonance imaging apparatus with simultaneous multiple electron paramagnetic resonance irradiation at 10 mT

Modification of a whole-body NMR imager into a radio frequency EPR spectrometer suitable for in vivo measurements

Continuous-wave NMR imaging of solids

A novel multiple-tuned radiofrequency loop-gap resonator for use in PEDRI

Design and Optimization of an Automatic Frequency Control System for a Radiofrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer

An efficient birdcage resonator at 2.5 MHz using a novel multilayer self-capacitance construction technique

Use of a DC SQUID receiver preamplifier in a low field MRI system

Imaging Using the Electronic Overhauser Effect

Progress toward whole-body proton-electron double-resonance imaging of free radicals

Imaging Paramagnetic Species Using Radiofrequency Longitudinally Detected ESR (LODESR Imaging)

EPRI and PEDRI functional imaging

The Application of Proton-Electron Double-Resonance Imaging Techniques to Proton Mobility Studies

Proton-Electron Double-Resonance Imaging of Exogenous and Endogenous Free Radicals In-Vivo

DC SQUID-based NMR detection from room temperature samples

Spin-trapped hydroxyl free radicals studied at low field by Field-Cycled Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Production of UV-generated hydroxyl free radicals imaged by proton-electron double-resonance imaging with spin trapping

EPR spectral information obtained from field-cycled proton-electron double-resonance images

Low-field EPR measurements by field-cycled dynamic nuclear polarization

Field-cycled proton-electron double-resonance imaging of free radicals in large aqueous samples

Proton-electron double magnetic resonance imaging of free radical solutions

Numerical design of composite radiofrequency pulses

A systematic design procedure for selective pulses in NMR imaging

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