As these volumes were being completed, American Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield won the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries leading to the development of MRI.
Authors have been selected based on research contributions in the area about which they have written and based on their ability to describe their methodological contributions in a clear and reproducible way. They have been encouraged to make use of graphics and comparisons to other methods, and to provide tricks and approaches that make it possible to adapt methods to other systems.
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