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...idea came out of left field. Electrical engineer Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
That is, until Nutt and Townsend had their epiphany in the Alps. Last October the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of a combination PET/CT machine, the first medical-imaging device that simultaneously and clearly reveals both anatomical details and metabolic processes within the body. By early next year the new scanners will be installed at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Indiana University, the University of Iowa and other medical facilities...
After refining their combined PET and CT concept for three years, Nutt and Townsend, who had transferred from the University of Geneva to the University of Pittsburgh, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in 1995 that enabled them to complete a prototype machine. Installed at the University of Pittsburgh medical center in 1998, it has been used successfully to scan some 200 patients...
Thanks to the new movie version of Charlie's Angels, which opens this week, interest in the three detectives of Charles Townsend Private Investigations has been rekindled. Hoping to cash in, the cable channel TV Land has been airing a lot of old Angels episodes. I hadn't seen one since childhood. So the other day I tuned in, curious to know whether my liberation memories would match up with the actual product, especially now that I have de Beauvoir and Ferraro and riot grrl under my belt. The episode was called Target: Angels. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), Sabrina (Kate Jackson...
...Like the TV show, three babes, Dylan (Barrymore), Natalie (Diaz) and Alex (Liu), are secret agents for mysterious millionaire Charles Townsend. Each flesh-baring lady has her own life-style, her own flavor. But they are brought together by their alliance to Charlie and their constantly ringing Nokia 2600s. Assigned to rescue a kidnapped executive, break into a top security data base and dismantle several bombs at once, the Angels sing in unison. Sounds like...