Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI

Institute for Creation Research ^ | May 2015 | Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.

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Raymond Damadian, Inventor of the MRI

by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. *

Evidence for Creation

Dr. Raymond Damadian is the “father of the MRI” (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). MRI is widely recognized as “one of the great medical breakthroughs of the 20th century” and has saved and enhanced countless lives.1

While studying violin at the world-famous Juilliard School of Music, Damadian competed with nearly 100,000 applicants and won a Ford Foundation Scholarship. He was only 15. This enabled him to complete a mathematics degree at the University of Wisconsin. He then earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and later did graduate work in biophysics at Harvard.

Damadian then became a professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, where he taught until he founded a company to manufacture MRI scanners.2 He also published widely in peer-reviewed scientific literature, including a highly cited cover article on MRI in the leading journal Science.3

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It wasn`t trivial coz I was also doing nuclear research and nuclear medical device experientation at both private & Govt facilities before and at the time. The name change screwed up the whole nomenclature of research terms- It was a very serious change which had never happened before in medical device nomenclature. We had to rewrite all our documentations to accommodate private industry PC. It cost a lot of money to do that -Thus it wasn`t trivial at all.

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