Building work begins on national MRI facility
October 31, 2025
Research update by Professor Tom Rodden Work is under way on a landmark project that will place the University of Nottingham at the heart of world-leading brain imaging research. An extension to University Park’s Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre will house the UK’s most powerful MRI scanner – an 11.7 Tesla Ultra High Field system …
University’s largest ever funding award for UK’s most powerful MRI scanner
June 23, 2022
Update from Professor Dame Jessica Corner The University of Nottingham, the birthplace of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has received its largest ever funding award to establish the UK’s most powerful MRI scanner. The £29.1m award, from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will establish a national scanning facility to help the UK lead the world in …
Radar, MRI, quantum theory and more: how an enigmatic baker’s son influenced some of science’s greatest discoveries
March 9, 2017
His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew is officially opening the George Green Library at University Park on Wednesday 15 March. So who was the remarkable yet enigmatic George Green? More than 175 years after his death in 1841, mathematical techniques invented by George Green are still widely used in physics and engineering. Green’s first essay, …
