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50 years of MRI

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Chemists developed magnetic resonance imaging—and are still finding new ways to make it brighter

Modern magnetic resonance imaging can capture fine anatomical details and changes over time, as in this time series that shows blood flow through the heart. Credit: ZEPHYR/Science Source Fifty years ago, chemist Paul Lauterbur of Stony Brook University published a paper announcing that he had found a way to use his nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to capture an image. As proof, he included a crosshatched picture of two capillary tubes of distilled water submerged in a tube of deuterated water. Though the difference between the liquids would have been invisible to other imaging…

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