Story of MRI

The story of MRI starts in about 1946 when Felix Bloch proposed in a Nobel Prize winning paper some rather new properties for the atomic nucleus.
He stated that the nucleus behaves like a magnet. He realized that a charged particle, such as a proton, spinning around its own axis has a magnetic field, known as a magnetic momentum.
He wrote down his finding in what we know as the Bloch Equations.
It would take until the early 1950s before his theories could be verified experimentally.
In 1960 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers were introduced for analytical purposes.
During the 1960s and 1970s NMR spectrometers were widely used in academic and industrial research. Spectrometry is used to analyze the molecular configuration of material based on its NMR spectrum