Artifact Details

Title

FIDAC Digital Radiology Patent Documents

Catalog Number

102799587

Type

Document

Description

Date range is 1974 to 1984.

Film Input to Digital Automatic Computer (FIDAC) is a high-speed flying-spot scanner for on-line input of digitized pictorial data into a computer's memory. Designed in 1965 for chromosome research by Robert Ledley, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Date

1974

Author

Mistrtta, Charles A

Category

Patent

Credit

Gift of the National Biomedical Research Foundation

Lot Number

X9031.2019