Peter Mansfield

The Long Road to Stockholm

The Story of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - An Autobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

In this autobiography, Sir Peter Mansfield describes his life from his early childhood in war time London to his research in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. For his discoveries in MRI, Sir Peter was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780199664542
• ISBN-10: 0199664544
• Artikelnr.: 36623635

Autorenporträt

Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The War Years
2: Rocket Science
3: Salad Days at University
4: Marriage and the American Dream
5: The Wanderers Return
6: Alt-Heidelberg, du feine
7: Krakow and the Lauterbur Epiphany
8: Hounsfield and EMI
9: The Golden Years
10: Brief Encounter with Technicare
11: Patent affairs at Nottingham
12: A New Vice Chancellor
13: Nobel Prize Speculation
14: Antagonisms to MRI
15: Beyond the Nobel
16: The Epilogue