Russian claims first in magnetic imaging

摘要

At the height of the cold war, Vladislav Ivanov was a young lieutenant in the Red Army charged with trying to use nuclear magnetic resonance in water to help with aircraft navigation. The days were long and lonely at his radar station, Ivanov recalls, and he had plenty of time to think. Time enough, according to documents filed in 1960 with the USSR State Committee for Inventions and Discovery at St Petersburg, to think of the idea of using magnetic resonance to study the inside of the human body.