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JOHN W. COLTMAN
JOHN W. COLTMAN
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Later, he took charge of a group of scientists whose aim was to solve the problem of the extremely dim images then obtainable in medical fluoroscopy. The resulting development of the X-ray image amplifier provided a brightening of 500 times and revolutionized modern clinical fluoroscopy.
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He became responsible for research programs in acoustics, information theory, infrared, underwater sound, nuclear physics, optical pickup tubes, semiconductor devices, and television. In 1960 he was named associate director of the research laboratory, responsible for a group of several departments.
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In 1982 he received the Gold Medal of the Radiological Society of North America in recognition of the development of the X-ray image amplifier.
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