Raymond Damadian

Raymond Vahan Damadian (born March 16, 1936 in New York , New York ) is an American medic of Armenian descent. He is a co-inventor of magnetic resonance imaging (MRT), at that time still called magnetic resonance imaging , a medical procedure with which cancer can be detected in living people.

In 1971 Damadian claimed to have found that the relaxation times in diseased and healthy tissue are different. Other scientists couldn't reproduce that. He also developed the concept of the full body scan for the human body. He carried out one on July 3, 1977 for the first time. His invention, for which he also received a patent in 1974, only included image-free cancer detection and was later replaced by other methods.

When Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to pictorial magnetic resonance imaging, Damadian was passed over, causing long-running controversy. In various daily newspapers, Damadian tried unsuccessfully with full-page advertisements to change the mind of the Nobel Committee.

Raymond Damadian's "Apparatus and Method for Detecting Cancer in Tissues"

Damadian received other honors for his invention:

• National Medal of Technology 1988
• he was inducted into the American National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989
• Lemelson MIT Prize 2001
• Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
• Innovation Award in Bioscience from The Economist in September 2003
• "Knights of Vartan" - "Man of the Year" 2003

Since 1978 Damadian has been president of the company he founded, FONAR, a manufacturer of MRI machines.

literature

• James Mattson and Merrill Simon: The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: The Story of MRI. Jericho & New York: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9619243-1-4 .
• Donald P. Hollis: Abusing Cancer Science: The Truth About NMR and Cancer , Chehalis, WA: Strawberry Fields Press, 1987. ISBN 0-942033-15-9 .

Web links

• "Nobel Prizefight"
• The National Science Foundation's history of MRI ( Memento February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). The author quotes interviews with the main characters
• Patent Fights Aplenty for MRI Pioneer New York Times article on Damadian

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal Mail form Ellen Yeske, Dr. Damadian's executive assistant, from August 30, 2018
2. ^ European Magnetic Resonance Forum
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Raymond Damadian receives the National Medal of Technology in 1988 and is inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1989.
4. ↑ Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award on Dr. Damadian as "the man who invented the MRI scanner"
5. ^ Raymond Damadian wins the Bower Award in Business Leadership from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
6. ↑ http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_NNQGTGG The Economist, December 4, 2003
7. ↑ Raymond V. Damadian, MD Named Knights of Vartan 2003 "Man of the Year" ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.