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The Story Behind the Development of the First Whole-body Computerized Tomography Scanner as Told by Robert S. Ledley

^a Department of Medical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente, Northwest, Portland, OR
^b Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

^_* Correspondence and reprints: Dr. D.F. Sittig, Northwest Permanente, PC, 3800 N. Interstate Ave., Portland, OR 97227. (Email: Dean.F.Sittig{at}kp.org).

Received for publication: 04/12/06; accepted for publication: 06/06/06.

"The army called me down to New York [in 1950]. I was with New York University (NYU)—and the colonel said to me, ‘Well, if you volunteer to be in the army, then you'll become a lieutenant, an officer. But if you don't volunteer, you'll be drafted anyway, and sent to boot camp. So I volunteered. And they sent me to medical field service school in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. And that was kind of interesting. And then, I guess my card dropped out, they wanted a dentist who was a physicist. And that was me."

Robert S. Ledley