Brian Worthington FRS FRCR (9 June 1938 – 9 December 2007) was the first radiologist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and is acknowledged as a pioneer in clinical magnetic resonance imaging.
[3] Although primarily a neuroradiologist, he was also interested in neuroimaging of the brain and when the University of Nottingham became a centre of early MRI development, it quickly became apparent that there was a need for accurate correlation of magnetic resonance images with anatomical structures and Worthington was considered to be the local expert.
[6][3] When the research group scaled up to whole body imaging experiments, he was instrumental in the first evaluation study to be carried out on a series of patients with a variety of intracranial abnormalities.
[7][8][9] Following the disbandment of Andrew's group, he began a long collaboration and association with Peter Mansfield and eventually held the post of Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Nottingham and had his own small department in the QMC.
As a radiologist he was interested in all forms of medical imaging and much of his work has been archived as part of the Manuscripts and Special Collections catalogue by the University of Nottingham.