Where was the first MRI machine made or invented?
According to Medical Research Council (UK) 1973: MRI invented Sir Peter Mansfield devised a way to harness cells’ natural magnetic properties to produce images of soft tissues in humans, leading to the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Today, all major UK hospitals have whole-body MRI scanners. The inventors link below however has a more complete story… The 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Paul C Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging. According to the Wikipedia page below, Paul Lauterbur worked at Illinois State later, but the early development of the MRI machine took place at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Raymond Damadian – First Patent in the Field of MRI. You could say he was the inventor too. Officially he was the inventor of a “precursor” of the current machines. As NMR machines were already in existence along with Computer Aided Tomography (CAT Scans), it seems to me i
