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.

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Detection of osteoarthritis in knee and hip joints by fast field-cycling NMR

Human relaxometry and MRI using fast field-cycling

Measurement of fibrin concentration by fast field-cycling NMR

QUANTITATIVE AND NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF PROTEOGLYCAN BY FAST FIELD-CYCLING NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

Absorption Methods for ESR and NMR Imaging of Solid Materials

The use of contrast agents with fast field-cycling magnetic resonance imaging

Design and construction of an actively frequency-switchable RF coil for field-dependent Magnetisation Transfer Contrast MRI with fast field-cycling

A novel variable field system for field-cycled dynamic nuclear polarization spectroscopy

Field-cycling NMR relaxometry with spatial selection

Off-resonance magnetisation transfer contrast (MTC) MRI using fast field-cycling (FFC)

Fast field-cycling magnetic resonance imaging: Imagerie de resonance magnétique en champ cyclé

Field-cycled dynamic nuclear polarization (FC-DNP) of 14N and 15N nitroxide free radicals at low magnetic field

Real-time monitoring of drug-induced changes in the stomach acidity of living rats using improved pH-sensitive nitroxides and low-field EPR techniques

Sequential, Co-registered Fluorine and Proton Field-Cycled Overhauser Imaging at a Detection Field of 59 mT

The excretion mechanism of the spin label proxyl carboxylic acid (PCA) from the rat monitored by X-band ESR and PEDRI

Development of a 3-D, multi-nuclear continuous wave NMR imaging system

Field-cycled PEDRI imaging of free radicals with detection at 450 mT

Proton electron double resonance imaging of free radical distribution in environmental science applications: first results and perspectives

Continuous Wave NMR Imaging in the Solid State

Continuous wave MRI diffusion study of water in bentonite clay

Monitoring drug delivery processes by EPR and related techniques – principles and applications

In Vitro and In Vivo Measurement of pH and Thiols by EPR-Based Techniques

Spin pH and SH probes: enhancing functionality of EPR-based techniques

Continuous wave MRI of heterogeneous materials

In vivo detection of a pH-sensitive nitroxide in the rat stomach by low-field ESR-based techniques

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