New York Times, March 23 2004

" In his notes, Dr. Lauterbur acknowledged that he had been inspired by Dr. Damadian's work.

Dr. Mansfield refined the techniques, making them more practical.

Dr. Damadian built the first machine for medical M.R.I. scanning in 1977 and named it Indomitable, producing the first images of a human subject, his assistant Larry Minkoff. That machine is now at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution."