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While researching the analytical properties of magnetic resonance, Damadian created the world's first magnetic resonance imaging machine in 1972.

He filed the first patent for an MRI machine, U. S. patent # 3, 789, 832 on March 17, 1972, which was later issued to him on February 5, 1974.

As the National Science Foundation notes, " The patent included the idea of using NMR to ' scan ' the human body to locate cancerous tissue.

" However, it did not describe a method for generating pictures from such a scan or precisely how such a scan might be done.

Damadian along with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith, subsequently went on to perform the first MRI body scan of a human being on July 3, 1977.

These studies performed on humans were published in 1977.

In 1979 Richard S. Likes filed patent * 4, 307, 343.