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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A Q-switch system for an MRI RF coil operating at 2.5 MHz
24th Annual Scientific Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016), pp. 2174Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry Extended in the Ultra-Low Field Region: Calibration Method and Acquisition of T1-Dispersion Curves that reach 2.3 µT
24th Annual Scientific Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016)Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-Cycling MRI: Demonstration of New Technology for T1-Dispersion Contrast
101st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2015, pp. SSJ23-02Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsAccelerated Field-Cycling MRI using Keyhole Imaging
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsCharacterisation of human glioma resections by Fast Field-Cycling NMR
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsDetection of tissue remodelling by Fast Field-Cycling methods
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsEnabling Nuclear Quadrupole Double Resonance capabilities for Fast Field-Cycling MRI
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsIn vivo human brain imaging at 0.2 T with a whole body fast field-cycling system
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsUltra-low field NMR relaxometry: calibration method and acquisition of T1-dispersion curves from biological samples extended below 1000 Hz
ESMRMB 2015 CongressContributions to Conferences: AbstractsMolecular biomarkers in human pathologies from fast field-cycling MRI
World Molecular Imaging Congress 2015Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts