Creator: NationalMuseumsScotland on 8 Apr 2011, 1 p.m.
Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive procedure that uses powerful magnets and radio waves to construct pictures of the body by targeting the body's own atoms. Designed by Professor John Mallard, Univeristy of Aberdeen, 1974.
In 1974 this prototype MRI scanner produced the first MRI image, of a mouse displaying pathology. The scan shows the brain, liver and oedema (fluid) at the fractured neck, visible as different coloured regions.
Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 31 Mar 2011, 2:36 a.m.
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