Mallard, John R.: Contributions from Aberdeen to the Emergence of Worldwide, Clinically Diagnostic, MRI

This article describes the contribution that the research team at Aberdeen made to the development of clinically diagnostic MRI. First is the well-known T1 mouse image of March 1974. Then there was the first 2-D Fourier transform for the image processing, generally nicknamed “spin warp” of March 1980. This led to the very first successful clinical explorations of August 1980-1982 at 0.04 T, leading to the first diagnostic clinical service from 1981 onward, first at 0.04 T and then at 0.08 T from 1983, both with the Aberdeen configuration. Finally, there was the establishment of clinically diagnostic MRI in the Far East with the cheaper, Aberdeen configuration, imagers at 0.1 T by the Asahi Chemical Co. of Tokyo, who built and sold some hundreds of imagers from 1983 onward. © 2010 by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.