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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to chemist Paul C. Lauterbur, 74, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and physicist Sir Peter Mansfield, 70, of the University of Nottingham, in England, for their contributions to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Lauterbur University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “[MRI] is one of the few things that have happened in the last 50 years that has had an incredible and immediate impact on the lay public,” says Russell E. Jacobs, a researcher at California Institute of Technology’s Biological Imaging Center. In 2002, more than 60 million MRI procedures were performed. “Before we had MRI, we were very limited in our ability to see differences within the soft tissues,” says John C. Gore, director of the Institute of Imaging Science at Vanderbilt University. “X-rays are very good at looking at bones, and nuclear medicine can look at certain types of function, but MRI is the method that is unique in its ability to see changes in the soft tissue of the body.” |
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