The 1994 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Application and Prospectives of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Paul Christian Lauterbur

/　　Chemist

Advanced Technology

Biotechnology and Medical Technology

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1994

11 /12 Sat

13:00 - 17:30

Place： Kyoto International Conference Hall

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:00

Opening
Greetings	Toyomi Inamori; Manarging Director, The Inamori Foundation
Greetings	Hiroo Imura; Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Committee in Advanced Technology; President, Kyoto University

13:15

Introduction of Laureate	Yukio Tateno; Member, the Kyoto Prize Committee in Advanced Technology; President, the Japanese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

13:20

Commemorative Lecture	Paul Christian Lauterbur; Lectures in Advanced Technology “Novel Approaches to Macroscopic and Microscopic NMR Imaging and Spectroscopic Imaging”

14:10

Introduction of the Lectures by the Chairperson	Masahiro Endo
Lecture	Kunio Tanaka; Assistant Professor, Asahikawa Medical College “Historical Review of Bio-Medical NMR Techniques in Japan”
Lecture	Hirotake Kamei; Senior Researcher, Electrotechnical Laboratory “The Role of NMR in the Measurement of Brain Functions”

15:10

Intermission

15:30

Introduction of the Lectures by the Chairperson	Tokuko Watanabe
Lecture	Jerome L. Ackerman; Director, NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital “NMR Microimaging and Spectroscopy of Biomaterials”

16:00

Introduction of the Lectures by the Chairperson	Masahiro Furuse; President, Nakatsugawa Municipal General Hospital
Lecture	Shoji Naruse; Lecturer, Kyoto Prefecrural University of Medicine “Medical Application of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”
Lecture	Mutsumasa Takahashi, Professor, Kumamoto University, School of Medicine “Clinical Application of MR Imaging-Present and Future Prospects-“

17:00

Question and Answer

17:25

Closing Address	Yukiko Tateno

17:30

Closeing

Laureates

Paul Christian Lauterbur

Chemist

A chemist who was the first to propose the basic principles of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), an imaging diagnosis method widely applied in modern medicine. He confirmed experimentally the feasibility of MRI and laid the foundations for its improvement and development, and also developed many related technologies. Dr. Lauterbur has thus contributed immeasurably to clinical medicine.

＊This field then was Field of Biotechnologies (including Medical Technologies).

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date: Saturday, November 12, 1994
place: Kyoto International Conference Hall
Moderators: Masahiro Endo (Senior Researcher, National Institute of Radiological Sciences) Tokuko Watanebe (Professor, Tokyo University of the Marine Sciences)