Nobel Prize for Medicine For MRI

andy1307 writes "American Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield have won the Nobel prize for medicine for discoveries leading to MRI. Worldwide, more than 60 million investigations with MRI are performed each year, and the technique is ``a breakthrough in medical diagnostics and research,'' the Assembly said. The work was done on the 1970s. Lauterbur is at the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana and Mansfield is at the University of Nottingham in Britain. "

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Re:Old News

[wawannem]

Subscribers can beat the rush and see it early

:)

exaggeration

[ih8apple]

From the article:
"There are very few people around now that haven't been in an MRI machine these days..."

Does this guy really think that everyone in the world is very ill and requires the depth of testing of an MRI? (Maybe he's just really old and all his peers have been through MRI's...)

Re:exaggeration

[Anonymous Coward]

Complain to a doctor about a heachache, ear pain or something similar and a referral for an MRI will be right behind the amoxicillin prescription.

I am marketing a new wonder-drug called "Placebocillin". It is just as effective as amoxicillin for treatment of viral infections (which it seems amoxicillin is prescribed most often). Plus it cost next to nothing to manufacture (main ingredient C6H12O6).

But the question is...

[TheLevelHeadedOne]

Can you view the pics from the MRI via RMI to UIUC from UoN, UK?

IDTS....

And thirty years later we had MRI Porn

[hrieke]

Iq Nobel Prize this.

Re:Finally!

['nother poster]

Don't use the "N" word. It scares people. It's just MRI, got it. ;)

Go MRI!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now if someone could figure out a way to make an MRI cost less than $5,000 per scan, I'd award them the Nobel Prize in a hearbeat!

Was there a complementary prize given for...

[vudufixit]

Pioneering research into anti-claustrophobia treatments?