X-ray Contrast Agent Technology: A Revolutionary History

X-ray Contrast Agent Technology: A Revolutionary History

Christoph de Haen
$140.00
Publication Date: April 22nd, 2019
Publisher:
CRC Press
ISBN:
9781138351646
Pages:
326
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Description

This book documents the fascinating history of radiological techniques that use contrast agents. The text includes many of the fundamental documentary sources that bring to life the social and scientific background of the discoveries, the personalities of the discoverers, and implementation of new technologies. Such agents when used with X-rays allow clinicians to distinguish anatomical structures with nearly identical densities. Focus is on urological and angiographic uses of contrast agents.

Key selling features:

  • Documents and thoroughly references the history of contrast agent development
  • Reviews the priority and importance of patents
  • Discusses the role that important individual scientists and leading research institutions have played in technology development and implementation

About the Author

Christoph de Haën, born September 9, 1940 in Switzerland, studied chemistry andbiology in Lausanne, Zurich, and Rome, earning a master's degree in chemistryfrom the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), followed by a PhDin molecular biology at the same institution. After a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistryat the University of Washington, Seattle, he became research faculty atthe same institution, jointly appointed in the Departments of Medicine (Division ofEndocrinology and Metabolism) and Biochemistry. There he moved up the ranks toResearch Full Professor and Graduate Faculty. In mid-career he joined the Braccocompany, a worldwide active pharmaceutical corporation, headquartered in Milan, Italy. There he held various leadership positions in global research and development, including Head of the Milano Research Center and Scientific Advisor to the BraccoGroup of Companies. The principle field of activity was contrast agents for variousdiagnostic imaging modalities. His publications span a wide variety of fields, includingsocial science ones. He retired in 2005 and lives in Switzerland.