Papers, 1977-2000

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Papers, 1977-2000

This collection contains records from the UC San Francisco Radiologic Imaging Laboratory, RIL, from its initial funding by Pfizer Incorporated and later Diasonics, and subsequent operation as a unit of Toshiba America. RIL's contributions to the developing technology of whole body Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, using superconducting and open magnets is traced through laboratory notebooks, correspondence, and administrative records.

77 cartons, 56 oversized posters

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Crooks, Lawrence E.

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Biographical/Historical note Lawrence E. Crooks was born in Berkeley, California in 1949 and graduated from El Cerrito High School. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, 1973, and 1978 respectively. From 1972 to 1976 Crooks was a National Institutes of Health Trainee in Bioengineering. . In 1976 he joined the University of California San Francisco Department...

University of California, San Francisco

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The video and audio materials came in several donations over the length of the project and were combined into a single collection. The single largest set of materials relates to the Shanti Project; there are also significant materials relating to the Sixth International Conference on AIDS. For more information on Shanti Project see MSS 98-48, and for the Sixth International Conference see AR 91-19. Other materials come from various television stations, amateur and professional production compani...