Who invented the first form of MRI?

Answer 1

Raymond Vahan Damadian.

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Answer 2

Dr. Raymond V. Damadian received the 2007 National Inventor of the Year Top Inventor Award for the MRI, even though the Nobel Prize for discoveries that depended on the MRI went to Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield in 2003.

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Although Damadian invented the prinicple, it was Lauterbur that came up with the way to image 'slices' through the body - hence the Nobel prize. Although Damadian produced the first whole body scan, the first imaging of the human body was performed of a finger by Lauterbur.

Paul Lauterbur came up with the idea of using gradients to select different parts of the body and image through them, Sir Peter Mansfied came up with the mathematical way of making the images appear.

Answer 3

1973. The UK Medical Research Council mentions it on a timeline of important events in medicine: http://www.mrc.ac.UK/AboutUs/History/Achievements/index.htm

Answer 4

Raymond Vahan Damadian.

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Answer 5

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a relatively new technology first developed at the University of Aberdeen, UK. The first MR image was published in 1973. [From Wikipedia article.]

Answer 6

The first form of MRI imaging took 24 hours to make a picture of a glass of water. Dr. Damadian invented this.

Answer 7

Paul Lauterbur