Professor David Lurie

PhD, DUniv (honoris causa), FInstP, FIPEM, FISMRM

Emeritus Professor

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Email Address: d.lurie@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department: School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

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Biography

Since my retirement in October 2021, I have been an Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen. I previously held a Chair in Biomedical Physics at the University (2002-21), where I researched and taught MRI Physics, starting when I joined Jim Hutchison’s team in 1983.

My research was concerned with the development of MRI technology and its bio-medical applications, most recently in the area of Fast Field-Cycling MRI, which was pioneered by the group that I led. Whereas standard MRI scanners operate at a single magnetic field (e.g. 1.5 T or 3 T), FFC scanners have the ability to switch magnetic field rapidly during a scan, thereby obtaining information on the variation of the NMR relaxation times with magnetic field strength. Results indicate that this can provide a valuable new contrast mechanism for clinical MRI.

During my career I obtained research grants totalling over £11.1m as Principal Investigator. In 2015 a consortium of seven research laboratories and two companies, coordinated by me, secured €6.60m (£5.92m) from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 scheme to develop FFC-MRI as a clinical imaging modality; the “IDentIFY” project ran for 4 years from January 2016.

I have given over 100 invited, keynote and plenary lectures at conferences and workshops world-wide. I am author of 91 peer-reviewed papers, 8 book chapters as well as 291 conference abstracts.

My CV can be found here and my bibliography is available here.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Natural Philosophy
1979 - University of Aberdeen
MSc Radiation Physics
1980 - University of London
PhD Medical Physics
1984 - University of London

External Memberships

I was Chair of the Communications and Publications Committee of the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) from January 2020 to February 2022.

Prizes and Awards

In 2017 I was awarded the Academic Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
In 2021 I was awarded Senior Fellowship of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
In 2022 I was given an Honorary Doctorate (D.Univ., honoris causa) by the University of the Highlands and Islands.

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Commentary: Electron spin resonance imaging studies of biological systems

A combined PEDRI and CW-EPR instrument for detecting free radicals in vivo

Young investigator award presentation at the 13th annual meeting of the ESMRMB, September 1996, prague a proton-electron double-resonance imaging apparatus with simultaneous multiple electron paramagnetic resonance irradiation at 10 mT

Modification of a whole-body NMR imager into a radio frequency EPR spectrometer suitable for in vivo measurements

Continuous-wave NMR imaging of solids

A novel multiple-tuned radiofrequency loop-gap resonator for use in PEDRI

Design and Optimization of an Automatic Frequency Control System for a Radiofrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer

An efficient birdcage resonator at 2.5 MHz using a novel multilayer self-capacitance construction technique

Use of a DC SQUID receiver preamplifier in a low field MRI system

Imaging Using the Electronic Overhauser Effect

Progress toward whole-body proton-electron double-resonance imaging of free radicals

Imaging Paramagnetic Species Using Radiofrequency Longitudinally Detected ESR (LODESR Imaging)

EPRI and PEDRI functional imaging

The Application of Proton-Electron Double-Resonance Imaging Techniques to Proton Mobility Studies

Proton-Electron Double-Resonance Imaging of Exogenous and Endogenous Free Radicals In-Vivo

DC SQUID-based NMR detection from room temperature samples

Spin-trapped hydroxyl free radicals studied at low field by Field-Cycled Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Production of UV-generated hydroxyl free radicals imaged by proton-electron double-resonance imaging with spin trapping

EPR spectral information obtained from field-cycled proton-electron double-resonance images

Low-field EPR measurements by field-cycled dynamic nuclear polarization

Field-cycled proton-electron double-resonance imaging of free radicals in large aqueous samples

Proton-electron double magnetic resonance imaging of free radical solutions

Numerical design of composite radiofrequency pulses

A systematic design procedure for selective pulses in NMR imaging

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