Medicine · Recorded milestone
MRI scanner
Recorded year1977
Raymond Damadian's team makes the first whole-body human MRI scan, using a homemade superconducting magnet.
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Led to
- Functional MRIRecorded · 1991enables
- DICOM medical imagesRecorded · 1993enables
- Brain-scan evidence debatesRecorded · 2008requires
- Focused ultrasound brain therapyRecorded · 2016enables
- Magnetic microrobots in the bodyForecast · ~2034enables
- Home body scannerForecast · ~2046requires
- Non-invasive full-brain readoutForecast · ~2090requires
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.