The history of MRI

Wolfgang Pauli (1924) "Atomic nuclear should have magnetically related spins"

Isidor Rabi (1938) An experiment to detect and measure the magnetic spin of atomic nuclei

Erwin Hahn (1950) Pulse/Spin Echo concept

Carr, Purcell, Meiboom and Gill (1958) Development of pulse sequences of radiofrecuencia and magnetic energy.

Raymond Damadian (1970) Measure T1 and T2 relaxation time on various tumors in comparison with related tissues

Paul Lauterbur (1973) Use of three orthogonal gradients that is the basis of most modern MRI systems

Seiji Ogawa (1990) BOLD imaging could reveal functional activation in the brains

Debra Gusnard (2001) fMRI baseline measures could be used to explore the biological basis of “self” for understanding mental function.

Aaron Filler (1992) Set of techniques could be deployed to tract trace throughout the CNS and PNS

Denis Le Bihan (1994) MR diffusion tensor spectroscopy imaging

Susumu Mori (1999) Rules and algorithms that are used to accomplish tractography

Discovery of the fundamental physics and biological properties of nuclear magnetic resonance

Invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Emergence of optimized methods