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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Spatial localization of relaxation dispersion by field-cycling with one-dimensional projection
23rd Annual Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015), pp. 2470Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsUltra-Low Field NMR Relaxometry: Calibration Method and T1-Dispersion below 1000 Hz
23rd Annual Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015), pp. 1681Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsUltra-low field NMR relaxometry on biological samples: calibration and acquisition of T1-dispersion curves below 1000 Hz
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2015Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast field-cycling magnetic resonance imaging: a new imaging modality
European Congress of Radiology (2015), B-0315Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13244-015-0387-z
Rapid field-cycling MRI using fast spin-echo
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 1120-1124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.25233
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5580/1/RapidFFCMRIusingFSE.pdf
Rapid Fast Field-Cycling MRI using Keyhole Imaging
23rd Annual Meeting, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015), pp. 2454Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsError propagation in fast field-cycling relaxometry
Quality Assurance in Magnetic Resonance, pp. 17Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsIn vivo field-cycling relaxometry using an insert coil for magnetic field offset
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 1492-1497Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.25040
Accelerated Field‐Cycling MRI using the Keyhole Technique
Annual Scientific Meeting of ISMRM British Chapter (2014), pp. PP1BContributions to Conferences: AbstractsCalibration of a Fast Field Cycling Relaxometer for Ultra‐Low Field Measurements of T1‐Dispersion
Annual Scientific Meeting of ISMRM British Chapter (2014), pp. P1BContributions to Conferences: Abstracts