“In one of his landmark early papers (Science, 1971) Damadian demonstrated that cancer cells had longer T1 and T2 values than normal cells. In 1972 he filed a US patent application for an apparatus and method to detect cancer in tissue.”
“Damadian called his imaging method “field-focused NMR” or FONAR. This became the name of his company, the first to manufacture clinical MR scanners commercially”
” When the 2003 Nobel Prizes for Medicine were announced, Damadian considered it a personal injustice that he was excluded. He placed full-page ads in several large world newspapers urging the Nobel committee to change its mind. The decision stood. “
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