William H. Oldendorf

William Henry Oldendorf ( born March 27, 1925 in Schenectady, New York, † December 14, 1992 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American neurologist.

Career

Oldendorf finished with 15 high school and went on for three years at the Union College in Schenectady. His Medical Doctor ( MD) he got in 1947 at the Albany Medical College in New York. He then worked for three years in psychiatry at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady. There followed a two-year military service as a medical officer at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Newport, Rhode Iceland. He then went to Minneapolis at the Hospital of the University of Minnesota. In 1956 he moved to the Medical Faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ), where he became a professor of neurology and psychiatry.

One of its key activities was the blood -brain barrier. For their research, he developed a number of new processes that are very often based on radionuclides. At the University of California Oldendorf was at the beginning of the 1960s, a pioneer in the development of computed tomography. He published in 1961 the first article on radiographic tomography and received in 1963 the world's first patent for a tomograph. But Oldendorf work on the computed axial tomography (CAT ) found at that time received little attention. Ten years later, the future Nobel Prize winner Godfrey Hounsfield Oldendorf developed further ideas and built the first computer tomograph. Oldendorf was not considered for the Nobel Prize in 1979 by the Nobel Committee, which has been discussed for years to come very controversial. 1975 got Hounsfield and Oldendorf for their work the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research, the highest medical and scientific award in the United States. The Ziedses -des- Plantes price received Oldendorf also along with Hounsfield 1974. Followed a number of other awards. 1991 Oldendorf was elected as the first neurologist to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He was also a founding member of the American Society for Neuroimaging (ASN ).

William Henry Oldendorf died at the age of 67 from complications of heart disease. He is survived by his wife Stella and three sons.

• W. Oldendorf: The Quest for at Image of the Brain: Computerized Tomography in the Perspective of Past and Future Imaging Methods. Raven Press, 1980, ISBN 0-89004-429-5.
• W. Oldendorf and Oldendorf W. Jr.: Basics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Springer Verlag, 1988, ISBN 0-89838-964- X.

In addition, carry over 250 articles in various journals Oldendorf name.