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| DAMADIAN |
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| Discovery that biological tissues have |
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| different relaxation rates |
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| 1971 |
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| HOUNSFIELD CORMACK |
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| Invention of Computed Tomography |
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| LAUTERBUR |
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| First MR image |
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| 1972 |
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| MANSFIELD |
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| First MRI of a body part |
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| invention of EPI |
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| (scans whole brain in secs.) |
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| 1976 |
| 1977 |
| Columbia fMRI |