Martyn Paley MEd, PhD

Martyn Paley is an emeritus Professor of BioMedical Imaging in Academic Radiology. He has been involved with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI/S) for over forty years, since 1973, when he studied Physics as both an undergraduate and postgraduate at Nottingham University, where MRI was invented.

Martyn has worked in industry for a number of companies in physics and engineering research including Rolls-Royce Aero-Engines (Combustion Engineering), Kodak (Colour Physics) and Picker International (MRI/S) in both the UK and the USA where he helped develop the first ever commercial MRI scanners during the 1980s.

Martyn left industry for academia in 1991, establishing an MR physics research group at University College London to investigate Neurological MR Imaging and Spectroscopy as well as development of Interventional MRI.

He joined the University of Sheffield in 1997 and was involved in setting up Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (MRI/S) research in a wide range of topics from advanced functional MRI to neonatal and in-utero imaging and hyperpolarised gas and fluid enhanced MRI/S.

Martyn has a major interest in MR physics and engineering and has developed complete specialised MR scanners including all hardware, software and imaging sequences for orthopaedic and neonatal imaging which have been successfully commercialised. His involvement in the SPERM project was to advise on use of MR and analysis methods and help develop new methods for acquiring data rapidly.