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Article: Caltech inventor transforms the MRI. (California Institute of Technology; Tome Meade; magnetic resonance imaging)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 30, 1998
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A Tucson, Ariz.-based technology development firm is betting millions that a Caltech chemist's invention will revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging - and turn a profit.
With magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, technicians use low energy pulses to generate a three-dimensional image of a patient's brain or other body parts. The images can help doctors diagnose illness or injury.
Tom Meade, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, came up with a special magnetic dye that, when injected into a patient, imparts more-detailed information, helping doctors to better diagnose diseases in potentially any organ.
Meade and two colleagues - Scott ...