• DocumentCode
    1401424
  • Title

    For whom bell toils: medical imaging by telephone

  • Author

    Kuhfeld, A.W.

  • Author_Institution
    The Bakken, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    3/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    88
  • Lastpage
    89
  • Abstract
    The use of the induction balance, which was invented by Alexander Graham Bell to cancel out line interference on his telephone, to determine the location of bullets inside the human body is discussed. Experiments conducted to locate a bullet in the body of US President Garfield, who had been shot by an assassin in 1881, are described. The trials on Garfield were unsuccessful, but the approach was later perfected by Bell.<>
  • Keywords
    history; patient diagnosis; telephony; Alexander Graham Bell; US President Garfield; bullet location determination; human body; induction balance; line interference cancellation; medical imaging by telephone; Batteries; Biomedical imaging; Circuits; Coils; Hospitals; Instruments; Probes; Surgery; Telephony; Wounds;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0739-5175
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/51.70055
  • Filename
    70055
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1401424