Scientists who gave medicine instruments that see inside the body and watch it work: Cormack and Hounsfield with the CT scanner, Damadian, Lauterbur and Mansfield with magnetic resonance imaging, Phelps with positron emission tomography, Marie Curie with radium, Einthoven with the electrocardiograph, Elmqvist with the pacemaker, Aoyagi with the pulse oximeter and Kouwenhoven with closed chest cardiac massage. A person belongs here when the cited article describes the invention of a clinical instrument or imaging method. It excludes drug discoverers.
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Allan MacLeod Cormack
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Charles Dotter
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Godfrey Hounsfield
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Heinrich Albers-Schönberg
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Michael E. Phelps
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Paul Lauterbur
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Peter Mansfield
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Raymond Damadian
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Rune Elmqvist
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Takuo Aoyagi
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Wilhelm Röntgen
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
Willem Einthoven
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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William B. Kouwenhoven
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Heinrich Albers-Schönberg (source article)
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21. Januar 1865 in Hamburg, Germany
Wilhelm Röntgen (Wikipedia)
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was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays
Allan MacLeod Cormack (Wikipedia)
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He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field.
Godfrey Hounsfield - Wikipedia
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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield ( HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919-12 August 2004) was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).
Wikipedia: Michael E. Phelps
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He is known for being one of the fathers of positron emission tomography (PET).
Paul Lauterbur (Wikipedia)
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Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929, March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.
Peter Mansfield (Wikipedia)
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Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933-8 February 2017) was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Raymond Damadian (Wikipedia)
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Raymond Vahan Damadian (Armenian: Ռեյմոնդ Վահան Դամադյան; March 16, 1936, August 3, 2022) was an American physician, medical researcher, and inventor of the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanning machine.
Rune Elmqvist (Wikipedia)
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Rune Elmqvist (1 December 1906-15 December 1996) was a Swedish physician turned engineer who developed the first implantable pacemaker in 1958, working under the direction of Åke Senning, senior physician and cardiac surgeon at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden.
Takuo Aoyagi (Wikipedia)
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Takuo Aoyagi (青柳卓雄, Aoyagi Takuo; February 14, 1936, April 18, 2020) was a Japanese engineer, known for his work leading to the modern pulse oximeter.
Willem Einthoven (Wikipedia)
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He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram").
William B. Kouwenhoven (Wikipedia)
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Known as the "Father of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation", he is best known for his contributions to the development of the closed-chest cardiac massage and his invention of the cardiac defibrillator.
Charles Theodore Dotter (Wikipedia)
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developed an automatic X-Ray Roll-Film magazine capable of producing images at the rate of 2 per second
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