Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Professor Terry Jones Professor Terry Jones
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Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Terry Jones studied physics and health physics at Birmingham University, graduating with a Masters degree in 1964. In the same year he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cyclotron Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, London, the first hospital-based cyclotron in the world. His career has been in neuro-imaging research, and he produced among the first gamma camera of the brain's metabolism and blood flow.In 1972 he visited the US where the first Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners were being developed by Michel Ter-Pogossian. Professor Jones developed a technique of breathing oxygen-15 (radioactive oxygen), which emits positrons, to image the brain's regional metabolism a technique which he tried on himself to create the first image. He was responsible for installing one of Britain's first PET scanners at the Hammersmith Hospital in 1979, where he recruited Richard Frackowiak, among others, to conduct research. His research interests have included looking at the pharmacokinetics of experimental drugs such as temazolomide, developed for brain tumours (gliomas), and imaging serotonergic receptors (the 5HT1A system) in the brain.
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A PET camera for the Hammersmith Hospital
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Terry Jones
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Building a team: Keith Peters recruits Richard Frackowiack and others
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Terry Jones
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Development of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Terry Jones
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First gamma camera images of the brains metabolism and blood flow
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First paper on visual (colour) activation, 1989
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Hammersmith forges ahead in functional imaging studies
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Terry Jones