First Human MRI (1977)

Raymond Damadian, Larry Minkoff, and Michael Goldsmith produce the first MRI scan of a living human — "Indomitable" prototype. Five hours to acquire one 2D image.

Paul Lauterbur's earlier gradient-encoding method (1973) and Peter Mansfield's fast-imaging techniques received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Descends to

• Every MRI system since
• MR-Linac
• PET/MR