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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Fast Field-cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Italian Magnetic Resonance Group XLVI National Congress, pp. 11Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging
European Conress on Magnetic Resonance (EUROMAR 2017), pp. 378Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsOverhauser MRI of free radicals
International Conference on Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging of Biological Systems (2017), pp. 47Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsDesign and commissioning of a whole-body 0.2 T fast field-cycling MRI magnet
10th Conference on Fast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 7Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsEvolution of the Quadrupole Peak determinants in the NMRD profile of biological tissue. A relaxometric study of model samples
10th Conference on Fast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 35Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-Cycling Magnetic Resonance Imaging
10th Conference on Fast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry, pp. 6Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsFast Field-cycling MRI: T1-Dispersion for Enhanced Medical Diagnosis
AMPERE NMR School (2017), pp. 19Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSimulation of Fast Field-Cycling MRI inversion-recovery pulse sequences to inform experimental parameters
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2017, pp. 59Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsThe T1-Dispersion Curve as a Biomarker of Colorectal Cancer
SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting 2017, pp. 58Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsA new human-scale fast Field-cycling MRI system for clinical applications
The ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, pp. 2677Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts