History
The very first MRI scanner was invented and developed by Dr. Raymond Damadian. Dr. Damadian tried for years to come up with a machine that can allow scientists to look inside the human body in the most efficient but most non-invasive way possible. That is when Dr. Damadian, along with his students, constructed the MRI scanner, which was a machine that consisted of superconducting magnets and a fashioned coil of antenna wires. Once, the machine was built, Damadian himself was the first to volunteer to go inside of it and test it. However, due to him being over-sized in relation to the capacity of the scanner, the MRI scanner did not respond but when a student volunteered to go inside, the machine worked on them and so, the first MRI scan was performed on a human on July, 1977. It took nearly 5 hours to record a single image on this earliest model of MRI scanner and ever since, this vital component of biological study has been improved and innovated in many ways.