Karl Dussik
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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- ↑ When the images learned to move or The history of ultrasound diagnostics (with illustration) PDF file ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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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 |