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Lauterbur: forming images with magnetic resonance

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Medical imaging · Scoped historical scientific contribution

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What changed

Showed how spatially varying fields and projections can turn nuclear magnetic resonance signals into images of an object’s internal distribution.

Scientific scope

Lauterbur's 1973 spatial image formation using nuclear magnetic resonance.

Evidence

Original sources and institutional historical accounts support the stated contribution. The reading boundary is recorded at each source; this assessment is not an independent scientific verification.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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