The development history of magnetic resonance imaging

1895 German physicist L?ntgen discovered X-ray

1896 Edison manufactured X-ray fluoroscopy machine

1898 Curies discovered polonium and radium

1901 L?ntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics

1903 Mr. and Mrs. Curie won the third Nobel Prize in Physics

1934 Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot (Mr. and Mrs. Curie) (his eldest daughter and son-in-law) won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating artificial isotopes

1949 American physician Howry established a preliminary ultrasound instrument

1952 Bloch and Bloch discovered the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance Purcell won the Nobel Prize in Physics

1971 The first head-type CT was invented in the UK

1972 The first CT was demonstrated in the United States

1977 The first MRI was launched

1978 Taiwan introduced the first CT (Taipei Rongzong)

1979 CT inventors Hounsfield and Cormack from the UK won the Nobel Prize in Medicine

1985 FDA approved the clinical use of MRI< /p>

1989 Taiwan introduced the first MRI (Taichung Rongzong)

1991 Ernst, who invented high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance imaging technology, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1995 PET (positron imaging) was approved for clinical use by the FDA

2002 Wuthrich, who invented the three-dimensional spatial resolution of MRI, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2003 Lauterbur, the inventor of MRI, and Mansfield won the Nobel Prize in Medicine

CT: Computerized Tomography

MRI: Magnetic Resonence Imaging

PET: Positron Emission