Radiotherapy treatment planning using the acta-scanner

Scheer, Alan C.; Ledley, Robert S.

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“…Dr. Ledley's first CT scanner [which he called the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial, or ACTA, scanner; [Ledley 1974a[Ledley , 1974b 2,4 is now owned by the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History [Kondratas 2005]. 5 Using his scanner, he was the first to perform three-dimensional reconstructions [Huang 1975], 6 the first to use CT in radiation therapy planning for cancer patients [Scheer 1977], 7 and the creator of many other "firsts" in the application of CT in medicine. The following story describes his efforts to develop this scanner.…”

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The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told by Robert S. Ledley

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Ledley

2006

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

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The army called me down to New York [in 1950]. I was with New York University (NYU)-and the colonel said to me, 'Well, if you volunteer to be in the army, then you'll become a lieutenant, an officer. But if you don't volunteer, you'll be drafted anyway, and sent to boot camp. So I volunteered. And they sent me to medical field service school in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. And that was kind of interesting. And then, I guess my card dropped out, they wanted a dentist who was a physicist. And that was me."

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“…He was a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and was awarded the Morris E. Collen medal in 1998 by the College [Broering, 1999]. 11…”

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