PhD, DUniv (honoris causa), FInstP, FIPEM, FISMRM
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- d.lurie@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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 Philosophy1979 - University of Aberdeen
- MSc Radiation Physics1980 - University of London
- PhD Medical Physics1984 - 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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Development of an RF coil tuning system to enable Nuclear Quadrupole Double Resonance in Fast Field-Cycling MRI
9th Conference on Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 50Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsIn vivo human brain imaging at 0.2 T using a whole-body fast field-cycling MRI system
9th Conference on Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 46Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsRapid Fast Field-Cycling Imaging using the Keyhole Technique
9th Conference on Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 34Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsRecent Progress in Fast Field-Cycling MRI
9th Conference on Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 20Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsUltra-low field NMR relaxometry: calibration method and acquisition of T1-dispersion curves from biological samples extended to the region of μT
9th Conference on Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 19Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsEquipping FFC MRI for Nuclear Quadrupole Double Resonance
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2015Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-Cycling MRI: A New Imaging Modality
AMPERE NMR School (2015), pp. 14Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-Cycling NMR (FFC-NMR): A novel way to age thrombus in vivo?
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2015, pp. 34Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsIn vivo human brain imaging at 0.2 T with a whole body fast field-cycling system
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2015Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSpatial localization of relaxation dispersion by field-cycling with one-dimensional projection
23rd Annual Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015), pp. 2470Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts