Karl Dussik

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Karl Theo Dussik (born January 9, 1908 in Vienna , † March 19, 1968 in Lexington , Massachusetts ) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1926, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna until 1931. He then worked from 1932 to 1938 as a psychiatrist and neurologist . Together with his brother, the physicist Friedrich Dussik, he researched ultrasound diagnostics from 1937 .

Karl Dussik was the first doctor to use ultrasound as a diagnostic tool. With the new technology, he was the first to visualize the ventricles of the brain. From 1938 he worked in the neurological department of a clinic in Bad Ischl (Salzkammergut) and continued to examine ultrasound procedures.

The brothers called their method hyperphonography. Ultrasound was sent through the patient's head in a water bath and received on the other side. Dussik wrote in 1949: “Hyperphonography appears as a new, promising path, which, however, cannot and should not exist on its own. Rather, it will be incorporated into the brain diagnostics building as a new component ... "

Works

  • Karl Theo Dussik: Myxedema in Syringomyelia , Vienna: J. Springer, 1937, in: Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 1937, No. 11
  • Karl Theo Dussik, K. Eckel: Central nervous system and oxygen deficiency stress. 1949.
  • Karl Theo Dussik: Further results of the ultrasound examination for brain diseases. In: Acta Neurochirurgica , Volume 2 / September 1952, pp. 379-401, ISSN  0001-6268 (print) ISSN  0942-0940 (online)

literature

  • K. Eckel: The discovery of the first imaging method in ultrasound diagnostics by K.-Th. Dussik 50 years ago. A historical review 1942–1992. In: Ultrasound in Clinic and Practice, 1992, Vol. 7, No 4, pp. 299-305, ISSN  0930-8040

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Dussik, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dussik, Karl Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, pioneer in ultrasound diagnostics
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1968
Place of death Lexington, Massachusetts