Timeline - 100 Years of Radiology and Radiation Oncology at Stanford University


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Historic Timeline

1904	First actinographer (radiology instructor) hired at Stanford University
1945	NMR co-discovered by Felix Bloch, Professor of Physics at Stanford
1948	Radiology becomes a separate medical department. Henry Kaplan selected as Chairman.
1949	Nuclear Medicine program started
1952	Henry Kaplan and Edward Ginzton begin building first American medical Linear Accelerator
1956	First Linear Accelerator in America installed at Stanford Hospital, San Francisco
1959	Stanford Medical School moves to Palo Alto campus
1962	Henry Kaplan and Saul Rosenberg begin definitive trials on Hodgkin’s disease treatment which lead to success
1972	Malcolm Bashaw becomes Chairman of Radiology
1986	Department separated into Radiology and Radiation Oncology
1989	Gary Glazer becomes Chairman and establishes Radiological Sciences Laboratory
1992	Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging completed
1994	Richard T. Hoppe becomes Chairman of Radiation Oncology
1995	MR Activities designated as NIH National Research Resource
1997	Initiation of intensity modulated radiation therapy
1998	First Multidetector CT, outside factory environment, sited at Stanford
2004	Radiation Oncology moves to the Cancer Center
2005	Molecular Imaging activities designated as NIH funded National Research Center
2005	Dedication of Lucas Center II