Terence Jones
Terence "Terry" Jones is a British medical physicist.
Jones studied physics and medical physics (Health Physics) at the University of Birmingham with a master's degree in 1964. He then joined the cyclotron group of the Medical Research Council at Hammersmith Hospital in London. Later he was a professor there.
After a visit to the USA in 1972, where Michel Ter-Pogossian developed the first PET scanner, he developed a method of taking PET images of the brain metabolism with the help of inhaled radioactive oxygen. He took the first such picture of his own brain. In 1979 he was responsible for installing one of the UK's first PET scanners at Hammersmith Hospital. One of his collaborators there was the neuroscientist Richard Frackowiak .
In 1994 he received the Ernst Jung Prize .
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| SURNAME | Jones, Terence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Terry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British medical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |