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JOHN WILD: 1914-2009From: DuBose, Terry (DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu)Thu Sep 24 16:30:00 2009
JOHN WILD: 1914-2009 Ultrasound Pioneer Offered Early Glimpses Inside Body By STEPHEN MILLER – Wall Street Journal (See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) Using an old wartime Navy radar simulator, John J. Wild developed the diagnostic ultrasound machine that would ultimately provide pregnant mothers with the first image of their unborn children. Dr. Wild, who died Friday at 95, developed the ultrasound technology and techniques in the late 1940s and early '50s. And they remain in use today. Ultrasound fetal monitoring is a standard tool in obstetrics, and it is frequently used to diagnose heart abnormalities. "The machines you see today are lineal descendents of his devices," says Peter N.T. Wells, a biophysicist and former editor of the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. A Briton trained in surgery at University of Cambridge, Dr. Wild became interested in peering inside bodies when he was called on to treat victims of V-1 bombs during World War II. The bomb's shockwave produced distended bowels in victims that could be fatal if not treated, and Dr. Wild realized he needed a tool that could measure the thickness of the bowel wall. Continuing his research after the war, Dr. Wild moved to the University of Minnesota, where he worked at first with a machine designed to find stress fractures in tank armor and then with a radar simulator at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport/Wold-Chamberlain Field. Working at first in his own basement, he constructed some of the first echoscopes, as he termed the early devices. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125365939548932121-lMyQjAxMDI5NTIzNDYyNTQ5Wj.html 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 or 501-686-5948 DuBoseTerryJ@UAMS.edu http://www.uams.edu/chrp/sonography/ http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm http://www.io.com/~dubose/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------
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