Edward J. Hoffman

Edward J. Hoffman, (1942 - July 1, 2004) who helped invent the first human PET scanner, a commonly used whole-body scanning procedure for detecting diseases like cancer.

Hoffman with Michael Phelps developed the PET scanner in 1973 at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1975 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania. Starting in 1976, Hoffman was a professor at UCLA medical school. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal IEEE / Transactions on Nuclear Science.

He died in Los Angeles.

External link

• Eulogy by Michael Phelps