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Rowland Wells Redington
Pages 194-199

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From page 195...
... ROBB Rowf AND W RED REDINGTON, who died on June 22, 1995, was a physicist and manager of technology who lecI enormously successful innovation projects that set the world standarcl in CAT scanning and magnetic resonance imaging.
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From page 196...
... Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. At the bench, he worked on new concepts for electron multiplier tubes for infrared-light imaging, helped develop improved video cameras, published papers on subjects ranging from electrostatic optics to infrared absorption, and earned patents in such areas as camera tubes en c!
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From page 197...
... Rec3 and his team initially developed the concept for a prototype capable of imaging a five-inch diameter object, and targeted mammography as an application. In 1974 the GE Research and Development Center launchecI a joint project with the Mayo Clinic to build a fan-beam CAT scanner for breast cancer screening.
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From page 198...
... When GE Meclical Systems suggested that Red lead a research program on imaging, Rec3 replied "that's not research, that's clevelopment." The outcome was an agreement by GE Medical Systems in 1981 to purchase for Recl's research team a 1.5 Tesla magnet, about three times the field strength of the magnet other MR researchers were `using, for research on both spectroscopy en c! imaging.
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... Red subsequently returned to the bench to do research on magnetic resonance microscopy, and retired from GE in 1989. Among his numerous awards were the prize for Tnclustrial Applications of Physics sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, en c!
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