This month in 1977: the first ever MRI scan
The “catalyst for tremendous growth in demand for helium”, this month marks 42 years since the first ever MRI scan.
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The “catalyst for tremendous growth in demand for helium”, this month marks 42 years since the first ever MRI scan.
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the famous proverb goes. Today, we might say, ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’. When an intensive study of the global helium business gave some rather damning...
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
No other planet has captured our collective imagination quite like Mars. In the late 1800s when people first observed the canal-like features on Mars’ surface, many speculated that an intelligent alien species lived there. This...
The first MRI scan of a human took place in 1977, a method of imaging diagnostics that has developed so rapidly that it is now found in almost every major hospital in developed economies.
