 FONAR Corporation NASDAQ-FONR, The Inventor of MR ScanningTM, celebrated a special anniversary on September 17, 2019: It was 50 years ago that Raymond V. Damadian, M.D., founder and chairman of FONAR Corporation, first thought about developing a device using magnetic resonance to scan the human body to detect cancer. In that letter, Dr. Damadian wrote, I will make every effort myself and through collaborators, to establish that all tumors can be recognized by their potassium relaxation times or H2O-proton spectra and proceed with the development of instrumentation and probes that can be used to scan the human body externally for early signs of malignancy. Detection of internal tumors during the earliest stages of their genesis should bring us very close to the total eradication of this disease, marking the origination of the MRI scanner. 