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MRI and John Mallard: The Complete 8 Chapters Despite how significant the R&D that John Mallard’s 1980 Aberdeen University physics and engineering group achieved in building the first clinical total-body MRI machine, international professional recognition was not received with any substance at that time. It took another 36 years after Read more…
The 2003 Nobel Prize was very controversial and there were many wild claims, counter claims and questions asked as to why scientists with significant direct patient related MRI achievements (such as the MRI whole-body diagnostic imaging tool for cancer patients) were not considered. Like many, I wondered why wasn’t Professor Read more…
In Parts 1-5 of this MRI story, it describes how the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) evolved into being a diagnostic tool for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of biological samples and eventually mice. The 2003 winners of the Nobel prize was based on this work. But who was the Read more…
Professor John Mallard First ACPSEM Honorary Fellow, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine Part 4. By the beginning of the 1960s, some Australian and New Zealand hospitals had established physics departments (similar to those in UK) to provide scientific services for radiotherapy, radiology and (the then very Read more…
Part 3: When asked about when he first thought up his NMR technique, he said that it was long before his breakthrough work at Stony Brook University. It was whilst having an eat-out dinner as a student researcher. He was studying then at the University of Pittsburgh and Mellon Institute of Industrial Read more…
Part 2. This story attempts to review and collate the many references and websites covering the pathway to clinical MRI. It is hoped it will provide the reader a balanced story of the evolutionary events that occurred and to appreciate how so many leading physical scientists, life scientists, physicists, engineers Read more…
In Memory of: John Mallard OBE, FRSE, FREng, FIPEM, FIUPESM (14 January 1927 – 25 February 2021) The late Professor John Mallard played a vital role in making it possible to use magnetic resonance to obtain whole-body images for the detection of diseases in patients. This story describes in detail how Read more…
A Historical 1967 ABC Interview Gerald Stone with David Robinson Dear members, Dr Jack Jellins AM has sent details of a historic news report. The Sydney located Commonwealth Acoustics Laboratory was in the ’60s an internationally leading research and development centre for new, innovative medical ultrasound devices. Visualising an unborn Read more…
Celebrating International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) Professor Alun Beddoe (“Alun”) was born in Barry, Wales on 22 April 1945. As his parents moved locally and then globally, Alun attended Stocksfield primary school in Northumberland, England, before moving to Te Awamutu in New Zealand……. Read More
Stories about past pioneers has proved to be a popular following on the Better Healthcare Technology website. Our article for this issue is about another leader from Western Australia. John Leo Black was appointed to establish a brand new nuclear medicine department at the Perth Medical centre, Sir Charles Gairdner Read more…
