Ákos Kovács (radiologist)

The native form of this personal name is Kovács Ákos. This article uses the Western name order.
Ákos Kovács
Native name Kovács Ákos
Born (1903-04-07)April 7, 1903
Budapest, Hungary
Died November 3, 1980(1980-11-03) (aged 77)
Nationality Hungarian
Fields Radiology

Ákos Géza Kovács (April 7, 1903 - November 3, 1980) was an internationally renowned Hungarian radiologist.

Biography

After finishing the Medical School of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Kovács became interested in radiology (a very new diagnostic field at that time), and studied its methods in different laboratories in Hungary and abroad. He was involved in the development of new radiological methods with the aim of overcoming the most important shortcoming of standard plain radiography that produces a single-directional image. His results were published in major international scientific journals of radiology.[1][2]

Kovács who worked for the St. John's Hospital (1929-1952) and the St. Rokus Hospital (1952-1974) in Budapest, Hungary. He is credited with discovering a new method of X-ray imaging of the lowermost lumbar intervertebral foramen (named after him as the Kovacs method).[3][4]

Selected publications

References

  1. http://www.orvostortenet.hu/tankonyvek/tk-05/pdf/4.18/1969_051_053_zsebok_zoltan_evolution_radiology.pdf
  2. "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990". Retrieved 22 February 2015.
  3. Anonymous, A. "Alphabetical List of Named Radiographic Projections". http://scrsl.weebly.com. Sri Lanka School of Radiography. Retrieved 15 February 2015. External link in |website= (help)
  4. Jonathan McConnell (8 April 2011). Index of Medical Imaging. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-1-4443-4097-6.
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