An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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OLDENDORF, William Henry

1 entries
  • 2700.3

Isolated flying spot detection of radiodensity discontinuities displaying the internal structural pattern of a complex object.

IRE Trans. bio-med. Electron. 8, 68-72, 1961.

Oldendorf described his experimental system for reconstructing the appearance of soft tissues by measuring radiodensity discontinuities (differences in tissue attenuation) but it was not fully recognized that very high efficiencies could be achieved until the work of Hounsfield (see No. 2700.4).



Subjects: IMAGING › Computed Tomography (CT, CAT), RADIOLOGY