Re: History of Ultrasound
From: sharma nabakanta (sharma_nabakanta@yahoo.com)
Fri Aug 19 20:17:04 2005
Hi
I am an Indian Gynaecologist practicing sonology
thanks for the massage
Dr Sharma
--- sounddoc@aol.com wrote:
> Terry and all -
>
> I really like the idea of having a bit of
> "tangential" information tied into the history of
> ultrasound web pages. Sometimes such material
> proves to be quite valuable in tracking down a
> "thread" of historic information, and it puts a
> human "face" on some of the historical facts as
> well.
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DuBose, Terry <DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu>
> To: Ray Elliott <ray@rap.midco.net>; Marty Wilcox
> <mwilcox@marinesonic.com>; Joan P Baker
> <jbakerbaker@comcast.net>; eric.blackwell@obgyn.net
> Cc: ultrasound-history@medispecialty.com
> Sent: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:54:47 -0500
> Subject: RE: History of Ultrasound
>
> Ray, this is wonderful. This is exactly the kind
> of information that we want to capture in this web
> site. I do realize that there are tangential
> stories that are important to the advent of
> sonographic equipment, but we do need those too.
>
> We are all aging now, and the internet allows us to
> capture and document this history before we are
> gone. It is important to the profession.
>
> You will notice that when discussing some historical
> facts, I am CCing
> ultrasound-history@medispecialty.com , this is also
> a way to document the development of this Historical
> Web site as well as the profession. But this
> ?Polybiography? is no substitute for stories and
> images of the past.
>
> I am very happy that we ?have ignited my fuse.?
> Please let us know what we can do to advance this
> historical documentation.
>
> Thanks, Terry
>
> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
> Associate Professor & Director
> Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
> University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
> 4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
> Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
> 501-686-6510
> DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu
> http://www.io.com/~dubose/
> http://www.uams.edu/chrp/dms/default.asp
> http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
>
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> From: Ray Elliott [mailto:ray@rap.midco.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: DuBose, Terry
> Cc: Marty Wilcox
> Subject: Re: History of Ultrasound
>
> Hi Terry,
>
> Thank you for your kind note and invitiation. After
> reviewing the link and the history therein, I
> started thinking about the diagnostic imaging
> industry in America and how much all modalities, ie.
> x-ray, cat scanning, nuclear medicine, ultrasound
> and mri have common and interlinking roots. The
> people that pioneered these industries in the U.S.
> were friends with each other at the time, and
> frequently used the technology from one modality to
> improve the next. An example of this is the English
> company EMI that pioneered cat scanning. Bob
> Haggland was their first president in the U.S. and
> before that he was my boss at Nuclear Chicago
> Corporation, where we built the first gamma
> scintillation cameras for nuclear medicine imaging.
> Later Bob worked for me at Unirad. Donald Zahorik
> was another of my bosses at Nuclear Chicago
> Corporation. Don later was the President of Unirad
> Corporation. Another Nuclear Chicago employee was
> Al Waxman, the man that started Diasonics, the
> first!
> manufacturer of nuclear magnetic resonance
> instruments. Al used to date my editor at the
> Journal of Clinical Ultrasound. I remember when
> they changed the name to magnetic resonance imaging
> to stop people thinking that they might glow in the
> dark from the procedure. Marty Wilcox was the
> second engineer that I hired at Unirad, and he later
> invented linear array real time ultrasound scanning.
> I remember when he spent alot of his time listening
> to the Denver Stapleton Airport pilot talk on the
> radio instead of listening to me.
>
> Please let me know If you have an interest in this
> kind of information Terry, or just about Unirad.
> Hope your not sorry that you have ignited my fuse.
> Please pass on my thanks to Joan Baker.
>
> Ray Elliott
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: DuBose, Terry To: ray@rap.midco.net
> Cc: Joan P Baker ; Barbara Nesbitt
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:00 AM
> Subject: History of Ultrasound
>
> Ray, Joan Baker forwarded your message and
> photography to me with the suggestion that you might
> be willing to post a bit of the UNIRAD history on
> the OBGYN.net Ultrasound-history Web pages:
>
http://www.obgyn.net/us/us.asp?page=/us/news_articles/ultrasound_history/asp-history-toc
>
> We would be honored to post an article if you are
> willing.
>
> Thanks, Terry
> Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
> Associate Professor & Director
> Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
> University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
> 4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
> Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
> 501-686-6510
> DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu
> http://www.io.com/~dubose/
> http://www.uams.edu/chrp/dms/default.asp
> http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
>
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> Terry here is picture of Ray Elliott the founder of
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> Unirad created in his garage! This would be good for
> the history and I know he would write it if you
> asked him!
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ray Elliott
> To: jbakerbaker@comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:25 AM
> Subject: missing photo
>
> Hi Joan,
>
> My computer indicated that it did not send the photo
> when I e-mailed you. Hope this makes it.
>
> Ray
>
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