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MRI is a technique using the phenomenon Nuclear Magnetic Resonance [NMR}. NMR was discovered by physicists,Felix Bloch and Edward M Purcell and won Nobel Prize for the same. MRI was later developed by the scientists, Paul Lanterbur and Peter Mansfield.

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