A Machine Called Indomitable

The true story of the doctor who invented the MRI: “A fascinating account of how a significant medical development came about” ( The New York Times ). Dr. Raymond Damadian was plagued with a mysterious and persistent stomach pain, yet physicians assured him that they could find nothing wrong. To find the answer to his ailment, Damadian would spend the ensuing twelve years building a machine that would change medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance scanning, now called magnetic resonance imaging (MR