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Dr. John J. Wild, Pioneer of Diagnostic Ultrasound  

 

Selected Invitational Lectures and Papers Presented By Dr. J.J. Wild

--"The Use of the Gastric Balloon as an Aid to Rapid Intubation of the Human Duodenum”.  33rd Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Sept. 1947.

--“15 Megacycle Pulsed Ultrasonic Reflection Studies on Biological Tissues”.  Delivered by proxy by Karl Dussik, International Medical Ultrasonic Congress, Bad Ischall, Austria, 1952. [First lecture in Europe disseminating findings.]

--“The Effects of Tissues on Pulsed Ultrasound”.  University of London, England, 1954.

--“Ultrasonic Appearance of Benign and Malignant Breast Disease at l5 M/C”.  2nd International Conference on the Ultrasonic Examination of the Breast.  London, June 1981.

--“Detection of Nipple-Areola Pathology for Universal Breast Screening.  6th International Symposium on Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization.  National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, June 1981.

--“Discovery of Ultrasonic Soft Tissue Reflection”.  Ultrasonics International ‘81.  Brighton, UK, July 1981. [Published in the PROCEEDINGS.]

--“The Scientific Discovery of Sonic Reflection of Soft Tissues and Application of Ultrasound to Diagnostic Medicine and Tumour Screening”.  20th Anniversary Meeting of the Japanese Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine.  Tokyo, May 1982.

--“Histological Diagnosis and Detection of Breast Pathology at 15 M/C”.  3rd International Congress on the Ultrasonic Examination of the Breast.  Tokyo, June 1983.

--“Application of Ultrasound to Medicine”.  Acoustical  Imaging ‘83.  Minneapolis, Mn., October l983.

--“Contribution of J. J. Wild to Medical Ultrasound”.  History of Medical Ultrasound Symposium, World Federation of Ultrasound in Biology and Medicine & American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine joint meeting.  Washington, DC, October 15-16, l988.

--“The Genesis of Soft Tissue Echoing and Early Instrumental Application to Clinical Medicine: The Thorny Inter-disciplinary Path of Application of a Medical Discovery”.  Inventing Mind Conference.  Tulsa, Ok., November 2, 1989.

--“Pulse-Echo Ultrasonic Application to Early Cancer Detection and Diagnosis”.  World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Copenhagen, Sept. 1, 1991.

 

 

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