Magnetic resonance imaging examples from Paul Lauterbur's lecture at the National Academy of Sciences

2024-12-06T12:21:46-05:00

This video was shown during a talk that Dr. Paul Lauterbur gave at the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. It contains examples of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used on a variety of subjects: the putamen structure of a human brain and the brain as a whole; a kernel of corn; a potato being cooked; and the circulatory system of a rat or mouse. Most of the video is silent, except for two sections: a narrated guide to using MRI to inform brain surgery, and a video of the construction of a superferric magnet at the Texas Accelerator Center (which was part of the planned but never completed Superconducting Super Collider).

This video also includes a 3-D visualization of a starburst dendrimer polymer, which can be used as a contrast agent in MRI imaging, but this model was not produced using MRI.