EMRF is the European Forum for MR in Research and Clinical Application.
It is the oldest interdisciplinary scientific institution in Europe devoted to medical and biological magnetic resonance, bridging the gap between the exact sciences and medicine.
EMRF
and ESMR are part of
The Round Table Foundation.
| European Magnetic Resonance Award 2012 |
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Selection Committee has decided to confer to Erik Odeblad (Umeå, Sweden) for his magnetic resonance studies of biological tissues. Professor Odeblad was the pioneer scientist who showed that the NMR signal of tissues was influenced by its chemical and biological surroundings, influencing the relaxation times of tissues. In 1955, he described – together with Gunnar Lindström – that distinct human tissues have different NMR relaxation times. This discovery laid the foundation of NMR in medicine and MR imaging. He submitted his results to Acta Radiologica in December 1954; the paper was published in 1955 (Odeblad E, Lindström G: Some preliminary observations on the proton magnetic resonance in biological samples. Acta Radiol 1955; 43: 469-476). In the following years he built his own NMR spectrometers and continued his work on biological samples. In 1966 he became Head of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Umeå. He published some sixty scientific papers on magnetic resonance in human tissues. The Award was presented at a special ceremony in Umeå, Sweden, on 25 May 2012. |
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| EMRF ADOPTS NEW ORGANIZATION EMRF will assume a new setup in 2012/2013. As a chapter of TRTF, the Forum will reorganize its activities and extend its teaching program to the internet. Its European Magnetic Resonance Award will merge into the Pro Academia Prize. Details were announced by TRTF (The Round Table Foundation) recently. The changes will be put in place in 2013 and 2014. |
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| THE STANDARD MR TEXTBOOK NOW ON THE WEB EMRF has started a new website based on its popular textbook An Introduction to Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: www.magnetic-resonance.org.The web-version has been rewritten in such a way that newcomers to the field will be provided with the concepts, explanations, and illustrations necessary to master the basics of magnetic resonance in medicine – applicable to all kinds of clinical equipment. It will be the major MR electronic teaching domain on the internet and includes a chapter on the history of MR imaging. Access to the website is open and free of charge. It was completed in late spring 2012 – the 30th anniversary of the first version of the manual. Translations will follow suit: Spanish and German version are planned for 2013.
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