Diamond Spin Team (IMAGE) DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Caption From left: Emanuel Druga, Ashok Ajoy, Dieter Suter, Kristina Liu, and Raffi Nazaryan were part of an international team led by Alex Pines that discovered how to exploit defects in powdered diamonds in a way that could strongly enhance the sensitivity of MRI and NMR machines. Credit Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.