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Working over the years with educators, scientists and healthcare givers has enhanced our own research abilities and incited us to push our own imagination towards new heights. In the beginning of 1980, a team of UCSF researchers completed the invention of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging (now known as Magnetic Resonance Imaging [MRI]). At that time, the fifteen-story UCSF Joseph Long Hospital was under construction for more than 15 years. Aviva was hired with the specific responsibility to re-design the Radiology Department on the third floor to accommodate the newly-invented 8-ft diameter magnet, the first MRI. With its intensive space and equipment planning issues, technologically stringent requirements, wall shielding, seismic bracing and engineering systems coordination, this project inspired and challenged Aviva and opened up a long series of healthcare projects that became her professional passion for the ensuing years. |