1978: Dr Mansfield's MRI MEDICAL MARVEL | Tomorrow's World | Science and Nature | BBC Archive

Tomorrow's World gave audiences a true world first as Dr Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham demonstrated the first full body prototype device for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), allowing us to see inside the human body without the use of X-rays.

His invention and work within this field led to Dr Mansfield and fellow scientist Paul Lauterbur being jointly awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 19 October 1978.






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