About his scientific journey
Raymond Damadian was born in New York City in 1936 (Treacy, 2014). He started his life by studying the violin at the Juilliard School. At 15 years old, he had won in a competition between approximately 100,000 applicants and got a ford foundation scholarship, which permit him to study the mathematics at the Wisconsin University. Then he got the medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Finally, he became a professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (Bergman, 2015).
The idea of the MRI
In 1969, while Raymond was studying about the function of the potassium and sodium in the human body, he asked before a doctor who wants a help in mensuration of the potassium in the bacteria by using a machine that used by chemists for many years and it is called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Raymond had grown some bacteria and put them into the NMR machine, then they got a signal and the measured of the potassium. In that moment, he was astonished. He started thinking about this experiment many times and he asked himself some questions such as, if we could apply this manner in the human body to discover and hunted the cancer cells and other pathogens so we can help many patients. Those questions led him to the laboratory to make his ideas true. He knew that’s impossible and fictional idea, but he had some hope (Wehrum, 2014). …show more content…
After the experience succeeded, his research and findings were published by the journal Science in a paper entitled (Tumor Detection by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance). Many people mocked him because of that paper, while he got a grant from the National Cancer Institute that helped him to start building the first MRI with two of his fellows, Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith (Treacy,
Raymond Damadian was born in New York City in 1936 (Treacy, 2014). He started his life by studying the violin at the Juilliard School. At 15 years old, he had won in a competition between approximately 100,000 applicants and got a ford foundation scholarship, which permit him to study the mathematics at the Wisconsin University. Then he got the medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Finally, he became a professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (Bergman, 2015).
The idea of the MRI
In 1969, while Raymond was studying about the function of the potassium and sodium in the human body, he asked before a doctor who wants a help in mensuration of the potassium in the bacteria by using a machine that used by chemists for many years and it is called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Raymond had grown some bacteria and put them into the NMR machine, then they got a signal and the measured of the potassium. In that moment, he was astonished. He started thinking about this experiment many times and he asked himself some questions such as, if we could apply this manner in the human body to discover and hunted the cancer cells and other pathogens so we can help many patients. Those questions led him to the laboratory to make his ideas true. He knew that’s impossible and fictional idea, but he had some hope (Wehrum, 2014). …show more content…
After the experience succeeded, his research and findings were published by the journal Science in a paper entitled (Tumor Detection by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance). Many people mocked him because of that paper, while he got a grant from the National Cancer Institute that helped him to start building the first MRI with two of his fellows, Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith (Treacy,