Re: History of Ultrasound
From: Joan P Baker (jbakerbaker@comcast.net)
Sun Aug 21 18:11:57 2005
I would like there to be a special section for these types of "vignettes" or
Personal Memories. They need to be ultrasound related of course but
sometimes they provide missing pieces to the history.
>----- Original Message -----
From: "sharma nabakanta" <sharma_nabakanta@yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND-HISTORY"
<ultrasound-history@dns.obgyn.net>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: History of Ultrasound
> 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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