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From the Winter 1975 issue of Yale Medicine: “Dr. George Palade, chairman of the section of cell biology, was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for his discoveries concerning the structural and functional organizations of the cell. He shares the honor with Dr. Albert Claude, his former professor and colleague at Rockefeller University, and Dr. Christian de Duve. ... [Palade’s] skill and his enthusiasm for unraveling the intricacies of the fine structures of cells attracted many students and research associates to his laboratory. ... There is seemingly no letup in the pace at which new and important observations emerge from the Palade laboratory.” From the Winter 1976 issue: “Yale-New
Haven Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the nation to
use a computerized axial tomographic scanner. This new diagnostic
instrument, which is similar to the brain scanner, is capable
of producing extremely detailed images of any part of the body.
... Combining X-ray and computer technology, the scanner produces
a television image of the body in cross section, which is actually
a computer-reconstructed image of a selected area of the body,
seen on two television screens, one color and one black and white.
The colors represent different densities of body tissue, such
as the difference between blood and brain. The scan image also
shows the relationship of the body parts in depth. This is an
advance over conventional X-ray films, which cannot “see”
a difference between body structures aligned over one another.” |
