INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
Damadian Apparatus and Method for Detecting Cancer in
Tissue
Patent No. 3,789,832
American inventor Raymond V. Damadian was born on March 16, 1936 in Forest Hills, New York. He attended the Juilliard School of Music for eight years where he studied violin. He later received his B.S. degree in mathematics in 1956 from the University of Wisconsin and an M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Damadian served as a fellow in nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine and as a fellow in biophysics at Harvard University where he completed academic work in physics, physical chemistry and mathematics. He studied physiological chemistry at the School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio, Texas.
After serving in the Air Force, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 1967. His training in medicine and physics led him to develop a new theory of the living cell, his Ion Exchanger Resin Theory.
Damadian is the inventor of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner that has revolutionized the field of diagnostic medicine. Since the scanner's approval in 1984 by the Food and Drug Administration, there have been more than 250 placed in use in medical institutions around the world. The invention produces images on the interior of the body that are far more detailed than is possible with X-ray devices such as the CAT scanner.
MRI obtains information from the human body through the use of static and dynamic magnetic fields. The method yields radio signal outputs from the body's tissue that can be either transformed into images or analyzed to provide the chemical composition of the tissue being examined.
He founded the FONAR Corporation in 1978 for the manufacture of the MRI scanner now being sold worldwide.
Dr. Damadian is the author of many papers reflecting multi-disciplinarian approaches to several areas of research and has been cited in numerous articles and papers for his pioneering work.
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