1. The Medical application of: Imaging By: Elea Roberts MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Machine MRI’s (Improvements) MRI brain scan

2. About the inventor(s) Paul Lauterbur -Born in Sidney Ohio on May 6 th 1929. -He died of Kidney failure in Urbana on March 27 th, 2007. -He won the noble prize (which he shared the honors with Mansfield) in 2003. -Some of the images Lauterbur first took were of green peppers, a couple of test tubes of heavy water inside a beaker of your average run of the mill water, and a clam his daughter found on the beach. -He was in the army which is where he developed the interest to invent the MRI (based on his experiments with NMR).

3. Peter Mansfield He was born in London on October 9 th 1933. He dropped out of high school when he was 15. He spent two years in the British Military. Worked in a print shop and a supply room. Went to high school to get the counterpart of what then was a high school diploma. He earned two degrees in physics. Peter MansfieldPaul Lauterbur

4. The original inventor of the MRI Raymond Damadian He went to Julliard for eight years to study the violin. He was born in New York. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989. (The other two dudes just made improvements to the original MRI) Raymond Damadian

5. The Problem(s) Exposure to ionizing radiation with past machines had been a major problem and they needed a machine that wouldn’t put of the harmful radiation.ionizing radiation Ionizing radiation is radiation that will create ions in a substance when it passes through it. This was a major problem because it would cause damage to cells and tissues. The IAEA warning symbol for ionizing radiation ?

6. The Second Problem Doctors wanted to be able to observe the inside of a human’s body without having to do surgery. This had been a constant predicament through out medical history until the MRI was invented. Weird surgery tools

7. Brainstorm!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! The first time that one of the two inventers had brainstormed the idea was years ago when Lauterbur was at a restaurant in Pittsburg. He had actually drawn the first improved model of the MRI on a napkin at the restaurant.

8. Design The design was already partly set up because of Damadian but Lauterbur and Mansfield made improvements by adding gradients and making it able to be produced in two and three dimensions. Mansfield discovered how radio signals from an MRI can be examined. How to make the imaging process a bit faster.

9. Assemble->Test & Assess->Redesign The MRI’s went through this a bit from when it started with Damadian’s design to adding Lauterbur and Mansfield’s improvements. Lauterbur and Mansfield’s biggest redesign was when they made it to where you could make the images two and three dimensional and when they made the image be able to process faster. Test tubes

10. Share Solution Lauterbur published his improvements to a scientific journal called Nature which actually rejected his proposal at first. After much begging from Lauterbur Nature published his advancements to the MRI. Nature Article

11. Controversy about the Nobel There was much debate over who deserved the Nobel Damadian or Lauterbur and Mansfield. They said that without Lauterbur and Mansfield the invention would not be useful to detect Cancer and that is why Damadian was not recognized. -Damadian did not get the Nobel but he still says “If I had not been born, would MRI have existed? I don't think so. If Lauterbur had not been born? I would have gotten there. Eventually."