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Imaging Chamber and Magnet

  • 1990s
Unknown
Rightsholder

This video, only labeled as "Imaging Chamber Magnet," shows a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine being installed in an unidentified laboratory sometime in the early 1990s. While unidentified, it is possible, if not likely, that this is the MRI machine acquired in 1993 by the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign using National Science Foundation funds.

Provenance

The Papers of Paul C. Lauterbur were donated to the Science History Institute in 2009 by Dr. Joan Dawson.
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Extent
  • 14M
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Subject
Rights In Copyright - Rights-holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable
Credit line
  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

Institutional location

Department
Collection
Series arrangement
  • VIII. Digital Storage Media
Physical container
  • Box 69

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“Imaging Chamber and Magnet.” Dvds, 1990–1999. Papers of Paul C. Lauterbur, Box 69. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/7m1lzga.

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