John Mallard OBE

Order of the British Empire

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 FRSE

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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was Professor

Professor

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 of Medical Physics

Medical physics

Medical physics is the application of physics to medicine. It generally concerns physics as applied to medical imaging and radiotherapy, although a medical physicist may also work in many other areas of healthcare...

 at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

 from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. He is known for his and his colleague's work in the development of radionuclide imaging, magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance imaging , or magnetic resonance tomography is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structures...

 (MRI) and, in particular, positron emission tomography

Positron emission tomography

Positron emission tomography is nuclear medicine imaging technique that produces a three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body. The system detects pairs of gamma rays emitted indirectly by a positron-emitting radionuclide , which is introduced into the body on a...

 (PET).

Honours and awards

In 1998, the John Mallard Scottish PET Centre was opened in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary or ARI is a teaching hospital on the Foresterhill site in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is run by NHS Grampian and has around 900 beds. ARI is a tertiary referral hospital serving a population of over 600,000 across the North of Scotland...

 by the Minister for Health, Sam Galbraith

Sam Galbraith

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. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen

Freedom of the City of Aberdeen

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 in 2004. In 2004 the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

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 established a lecture in his name, to be given annually at the United Kingdom Radiological Congress.