The test subject that produced the first 3D magnetic resonance image was quiet and a bit hairy. Tough on the outside, the patient was a big softie at heart. It was also not human. Nobel Prize-winning ...

Physicist Paul C. Lauterbur, 77, who received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving doctors the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died of ...

But how? The nuclear magnetic resonance signal is governed by the simple Larmor equation, which holds that the frequency of the signal is proportional to the strength of the applied magnetic field.

Not every invention will change the world, but a disparate group of scientists pushing the limits of nuclear magnetic ...

In an old storage shed in Urbana, a piece of history rested quietly for decades. The 3,500 pound magnet is called Big Red, the first human MRI scanner. Late University faculty member Paul Lauterbur ...

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) – The Illinois MRI Exhibit will now feature the first two human magnetic resonance imaging scanners invented by late University of Illinois faculty member Paul Lauterbur. The ...

When University of Illinois Professor Paul Lauterbur was developing the technique that led to magnetic resonance imaging, the small bore magnets available in the 1970s weren't big enough to hold a lab ...

Many people think Lauterbur and co-recipient Peter Mansfield, a University of Nottingham, England, professor and former UI researcher, should have received the Nobel Prize before this. They had been ...

For the third time since 1951, scientists working in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance technology have been recognized by the Nobel Academy, with a British physicist and an American chemist this ...