PhD, DUniv (honoris causa), FInstP, FIPEM, FISMRM
Emeritus Professor
- About
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- Email Address
- d.lurie@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
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 Philosophy1979 - University of Aberdeen
- MSc Radiation Physics1980 - University of London
- PhD Medical Physics1984 - 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. - Publications
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Design and construction of a 0.2 T system for whole-body field-cycling MRI
Contributions to Conferences: PapersDetection of osteoarthritis in knee and hip joints by fast field-cycling NMR
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 358-362Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.23266
Human relaxometry and MRI using fast field-cycling
AMPERE NMR School (2012), pp. 22Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsMeasurement of fibrin concentration by fast field-cycling NMR
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1453–1457Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.23117
QUANTITATIVE AND NON-INVASIVE DETECTION OF PROTEOGLYCAN BY FAST FIELD-CYCLING NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
World Congress on Osteoarthritis, pp. S92-S93Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2012.02.093
Absorption Methods for ESR and NMR Imaging of Solid Materials
MRI of Tissues with Short T2s or T2*s. Bydder, G., Young, I. (eds.). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 171-184, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe use of contrast agents with fast field-cycling magnetic resonance imaging
Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 105-115Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDesign and construction of an actively frequency-switchable RF coil for field-dependent Magnetisation Transfer Contrast MRI with fast field-cycling
Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 134-139Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA novel variable field system for field-cycled dynamic nuclear polarization spectroscopy
Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 205, no. 2, pp. 202-208Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2010.04.015
Field-cycling NMR relaxometry with spatial selection
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 1698-1702Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22346