Science is about facts and truth. Yet sometimes the truth and facts are not obvious. For example, in the field of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), there has been a long-lasting debate about who were the major contributors in its development. Particularly, there was a strong dispute between the followers of two scientists, R. Damadian and P. Lauterbur. In this review, we carefully trace the major developments in applying NMR for cancer detection starting almost 50 years ago. The research records show that the truth was beyond the claims of either research camps. The development of NMR for cancer detection involved multiple research groups, who made critical contributions at different junctures.
@article{arxiv.2405.00053,
title = {A new understanding on the history of developing MRI for cancer detection},
author = {Donald C. Chang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00053},
year = {2024}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables; This work was reported in the 2024 APS March Meeting held at Minneapolis as an invited talk given in Session S43: Physics, History, and Future of MRI