Heinz Hundeshagen

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Heinz Hundeshagen (born March 6, 1928 in Langensalza ; † October 30, 2017 ) was a German nuclear medicine specialist and professor emeritus at the Hanover Medical School .

Life

After Hundeshagen had been drafted in 1944, he made up his Abitur in 1947 and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in 1948/49, which he completed with the journeyman's examination. From 1950 to 1956 he then studied theology, physics, mathematics and, from 1952, medicine at the University of Marburg . In 1957 he received his doctorate with Emil Heinz Graul with the topic "Animal studies on the metabolism of yttrium-90" . In 1960 he completed his habilitation at the University of Marburg, and in the following year he received the Venia legendi in radiation biology.

In 1963 he became senior physician at the Marburg Radiation Clinic. In 1965 he went to Hanover, where he was involved in setting up a research department and the clinic for nuclear medicine and special biophysics at the Hanover Medical School, of which he later became director. In 1968 he was appointed full professor. From 1971 he was rector of the Hannover Medical School several times (1971 to 1973, 1975 to 1977, 1979 to 1985 and 1989 to 1993). In 1997 he retired.

Hundeshagen was the founder and first editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Research priorities

The company's main dog Hagens scientific work the cardiovascular diagnostics that belonged pancreas - scintigraphy , and comparison and fusion of different imaging methods, especially PET and MRI .

voluntary work

  • 1968: President of the newly founded German Academy for Nuclear Medicine
  • 1970: President of the International Society for Nuclear Medicine
  • 1978: President of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine
  • 1986: President of the German X-ray Congress

Fonts

author

  • with Emil Graul: Autoradiography as a methodological aid in medical research . Gersbach, Braunschweig 1957
  • Radiocardiography: Fundamentals and Development of a Method . Hüthig, Heidelberg 1970
  • with Ulrich Zeidler, Sybille Kottke: Brain scintigraphy: technology and clinic . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1972, ISBN 978-3-540-05839-7

editor

  • Radiology . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1978
  • Emission computed tomography: with short-lived cyclotron-produced radiopharmaceuticals . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1988, ISBN 3-540-18018-4
  • Nuclear medicine . 2 volumes, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / London / Paris / Tokyo

honors and awards

  • 1980: Hevesy Memorial Medal
  • 1980: Gold Medal of Honor, Bordeaux
  • 1981: Lower Saxony Prize for Science
  • 1982: György Hevesy Medal , Hungary
  • 1985: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux
  • 1985: Badge of honor from the Lower Saxony Medical Association
  • 1985: Honorary member of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine
  • 1987: Georg de Hevesy Rudolf Schönheimer Medal
  • 1991: Hermann Rieder Medal
  • 1996: Medal of Honor from the Innsbruck Medical Faculty
  • 2005: Honorary member of the GNS

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Hundeshagen: Obituary. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . November 4, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .