Thomas F. Budinger
Thomas Francis Budinger (born October 25, 1932 in Evanston , Illinois ) is an American medical physicist .
Budinger received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Regis College , Colorado in 1954 (and worked as an analytical chemist in industry in 1954) and a master's degree in oceanography from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1957 , where he was an oceanographer until 1966. In addition, he studied medicine at the University of Colorado with an MD degree in 1964, an internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston , then worked first as a physicist and then as a medical doctor at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (1966/67), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Donner Laboratory and a PhD in medical physics from the University of California, Berkeley , 1971. He has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1976 and heads the Nuclear Medicine and Functional Imaging department at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab . In addition, from 1984 he was a professor at the University of California, San Francisco , where he headed the bioengineering department and was director of the Magnetic Resonance Science Center .
Among other things, he dealt with nuclear magnetic resonance in medicine and positron emission tomography including instrument development and mathematical methods, biomonitoring , cardiology, image processing, biomedical electronics.
In 1989 he received the Ernst Jung Prize . He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (1996).
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Budinger, Thomas F. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Budinger, Thomas Francia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Evanston , Illinois |