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 Professor Ian Donald |
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- Ian Donald served in the RAF during WW2.
- He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the MBE.
- And learned the technology of SONAR and RADAR whilst stationed in the
Hebrides.
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| The Glasgow Connection |
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1954 - Ian Donald was
appointed as Glasgow University’s Regius
Professor of Midwifery and began ultrasound research in 1955. |
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| Modest Beginnings (1955) |
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On the 21st of July 1955 Donald and Dr Wallace Barr
took samples of excised tumours and cysts to the factory of Babcock and Wilcox
in Renfrew. They discovered there was a clear difference in the A-scan traces
between solid and cystic tumours.
A Henry Hughes Mk 2 flaw detector like this was used by Donald in his first
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An A -Scan trace from an ovarian cyst. |
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| Tom Brown |
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| Tom Brown worked as an engineer at Kelvin Hughes in
Glasgow. He heard that Donald was ‘using a flaw detector on people’.
Brown contacted Donald and provided the technical support to the project. |
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| A-Scan (1956) |
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Tom Brown obtained a brand new Kelvin Hughes Mk 4 flaw
detector. Kelvin Hughes supported the project for a number of years. |
| The Mk.4 was well able to differentiate between solid
and cystic tumours and in one case saved the life of a woman previously thought
to have an inoperable stomach cancer. |
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