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Sir Peter Mansfield FRS, (born October 9, 1933), is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging. He graduated at Queen Mary College, London with a BSc in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1962.
He has worked in the Department of Physics at the University of Nottingham since 1964.
His major contribution is the protocol of echo-planar imaging which allows T2* weighted images to be collected many times faster than previously possible. EPI has made fMRI feasible.
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