Abstract
On 6 October, Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield, the pioneers of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), became the latest scientists to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in Medicine. The Nobel committee credited Lauterbur with discovering the possibility of creating a two-dimensional image by introducing variations into magnetic fields, and Mansfield with developing the mathematical analysis of the signals and the technique of echo-planar imaging, which led to the implementation of MRI as a useful clinical tool. According to The Globe and Mail (7 October 2003), Mansfield himself acted as a human guinea pig when the time came to test his methods on a live subject.
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