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FONAR Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Origination of the MRI
MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The Inventor of MR Scanning™, celebrated a special anniversary on
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[{"type":"text","content":"MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The Inventor of MR Scanning™, celebrated a special anniversary on September 17, 2019: It was 50 years ago that Raymond V. Damadian, M.D., founder and chairman of FONAR Corporation, first thought about developing a device using magnetic resonance to scan the human body to detect cancer.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Raymond Damadian's Letter written 50 years ago to Dr. George Mirick of the Health Research Council of the City of New York. Page 1 of 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Raymond Damadian's Letter written 50 years ago to Dr. George Mirick of the Health Research Council of the City of New York. Page 2 of 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Raymond Damadian's Letter written 50 years ago to Dr. George Mirick of the Health Research Council of the City of New York. Page 3 of 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n On September 17, 1969, Dr. Damadian sent a letter to Dr. George Mirick of the Health Research Council of the City of New York requesting financial support for equipment to follow up his promising line of research. In that letter, Dr. Damadian wrote, “I will make every effort myself and through collaborators, to establish that all tumors can be recognized by their potassium relaxation times or H2O-proton spectra and proceed with the development of instrumentation and probes that can be used to scan the human body externally for early signs of malignancy. Detection of internal tumors during the earliest stages of their genesis should bring us very close to the total eradication of this disease,” marking the origination of the MRI scanner. It was during the following year, on June 18, 1970, that Dr. Damadian performed the first experiments whereby he discovered the distinctly elongated time-lapsed signal marking differences between normal and cancerous tissue, as well as differences among various normal organs themselves that make the MRI image. “That was my ‘Eureka!’ moment,” said Dr. Damadian. The results of his experiments were subsequently published in the journal Science on March 19, 1971. Today thousands upon thousands of MRI scanners are scanning millions of patients every year all over the world. According to December 4, 2003 issue of The Economist, “About 22,000 MRI machines around the world were used i...