Was just demonstrating that Damadian was not just "some crank". He's not just "some crank", he's a big crank! An opportunist, really, who nonetheless played an important, if not pivotal, role in the invention of MRI.
Well, the Supreme Court agreed with the "crank" over GE, and his patent was before the 1973 paper> You may not like him personally and he may be a bit eccentric. I don't know the man. But is not someone without claim to the technology as was inferred in earlier posts.