1978: Dr Mansfield's MRI MEDICAL MARVEL | Tomorrow's World | Science and Nature | BBC Archive
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- Tomorrow's World gave audiences a true world first as Dr Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham demonstrated the first full body prototype device for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allowing us to see inside the human body without the use of X-rays.
His invention and work within this field led to Dr Mansfield and fellow scientist Paul Lauterbur being jointly awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 19 October 1978.
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"If I don't have a cardiac arrest I'll know everything is OK." What a brave, clever man. We are indebted to people like Dr Mansfield.
We certainly are indebted yet I am pretty sure he would have tested it on a few animals first!
And it'd never be allowed today. Anyway, I have such an appetite for these clips, I could watch programming from the BBC from this era for hours, I wonder why there's so little of it available
World-changing technology both for health and for chemical analysis.
The first full body scanner that could be used medically was developed at the University of Aberdeen, and was first used on a patient in 1980. The machine is currently on display at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
I read an article in Popular Science in 1974, where MRI technology was described. I don't know who devised the practicality first.
PET scan technology was devised in 1965. It was all worked out, in anticipation of computers being able to work fast enough and cope with masses of data. They were brilliant and forward thinking scientists to anticipate future developments.
Its hard to communicate just how ground breaking this was. The human body becomes transparent with absolutely ill effects. The Nobel Prize was richly deserved.
Was getting an MRI two days ago, and while having a nice rest while it scanned me I was thinking about how I remembered the device's announcement and then got an instant OLD MAN ALERT feel 😂👴
This was filmed in '78. He didn't receive a Nobel Prize for another 25 years.
As inventor of the MRI, I'm so glad he stuck to his day job.
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The technique shown in this video depends on a phenomenon known as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) whereby it measures the radio-frequency "wobble" of atomic nuclei in a magnetic field, especially protons, which are the nuclei of hydrogen atoms. However, it was believed that the use of the word "nuclear" would scare the non-scientific general public, and thus was omitted in naming the technology "magnetic resonance imaging".
I love the footage! I was always interested with this technology ever since I had one as a kid. Not to be one of those guys, but I like to see the MRI as an inadvertent joint project where Dr Mansfield in UK invented the first prototype it was Dr Damadian in the US who invented the first modern scanner. However, this all stems from the research of American Dr Isidor Isaac Rabi who discovered NMR
Nice!
Like everything. someone in Britain invests something. Then others dominate the market.
Made for the greater good, seized upon for even greater profit. Sad.
Sad reality.
The NHS should show people this video when they complain about how noisy and cramped today's MRIs are... They might appreciate what these guys had to go through to invent what we take for granted nowadays.
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I wondered if he was going to say that the risk was if the powerful magnetic field fluctuated unexpectedly the band around his chest would slice him in half as it shot out of the device!