MRI Scanner
InventorRaymond Damadian
Year1971
CategoryMedicine
OriginUSA
About MRI Scanner
Damadian demonstrated that cancer cells and normal cells respond differently to magnetic fields. Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield developed practical imaging. The first full-body scan took nearly 5 hours. Now over 40 million MRI scans are performed annually.
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