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The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told by Robert S. Ledley

The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told... Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 13 Number 5 Sep / Oct 2006 465 The Practice of Informatics JAMIA Historical Perspectives The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told by Robert S. Ledley DEAN F. SITTIG,PHD, JOAN S. ASH,PHD, AND ROBERT S. LEDLEY, MS, DDS J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:465– 469. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2127. “The army called me down to New York [in 1950]. I was perform three-dimensional reconstructions [Huang 1975], with New York University (NYU)—and the colonel said to the first to use CT in radiation therapy planning for cancer me, ‘Well, if you volunteer to be in the army, then you’ll patients [Scheer 1977], and the creator of many other become a lieutenant, an officer. But if you don’t volunteer, “firsts” in the application of CT in medicine. The following you’ll be drafted anyway, and sent to boot camp. So I story describes his efforts to develop this scanner. volunteered. And they sent me to medical field service How Did You Become a Dentist and a Physicist? school in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. And that was kind of I always liked physics. I started at Columbia [University in interesting. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Oxford University Press

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Oxford University Press
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American Medical Informatics Association
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10.1197/jamia.M2127
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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Volume 13 Number 5 Sep / Oct 2006 465 The Practice of Informatics JAMIA Historical Perspectives The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told by Robert S. Ledley DEAN F. SITTIG,PHD, JOAN S. ASH,PHD, AND ROBERT S. LEDLEY, MS, DDS J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:465– 469. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2127. “The army called me down to New York [in 1950]. I was perform three-dimensional reconstructions [Huang 1975], with New York University (NYU)—and the colonel said to the first to use CT in radiation therapy planning for cancer me, ‘Well, if you volunteer to be in the army, then you’ll patients [Scheer 1977], and the creator of many other become a lieutenant, an officer. But if you don’t volunteer, “firsts” in the application of CT in medicine. The following you’ll be drafted anyway, and sent to boot camp. So I story describes his efforts to develop this scanner. volunteered. And they sent me to medical field service How Did You Become a Dentist and a Physicist? school in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. And that was kind of I always liked physics. I started at Columbia [University in interesting.

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics AssociationOxford University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2006

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