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AGE EIGHT
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951
nvention Aids Heart Research
By JOE LASTELIC
A new method of studying the normal and abnormal forces of the heart is taking place at the University of Kansas Medical center in Kansas City as a joint research project with the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph air force base, San Antonio.
This research is made possible by means of a new machine called a sion ballistocardiograph, Dr. E. Grey Dimond, director of the project, said.
"The torsion ballistocardiograph is the only machine in the United States that can give a simultaneous picture of the mechanical forces of the heart in three dimensions," he explained.
The machine consists of a bed supported on metal blades which can twist as the bed moves back-and-forth, sideways, or up-and-down in response to the forces of blood leaving the heart with each beat. The twist of the blades is converted to electrical impulses by piezo-electric crystals similar to those used in phonograph pick-ups.
These electrical impulses are put into a six-channel electro-cardiograph, a machine that records impulses of the heart on a chart.
At the same time, a photoelectric
eye is recording the movement of the heart as projected by X-ray on a fluoroscopic screen. Standard electro-cardiographs are simultaneously recorded. In addition, catheters (rubber tubes) in the large arteries at the root of the heart, measure the pressure directly.
By using this unique machine, the air force hopes to learn much more about the heart output at high altitudes, and whether sudden changes in pressures on man suddenly change the heart output.
'As a by-product, it is hoped that the research will throw new light on the problem.'
Dr. Dimond was teaching cardiology in 1949 at the School of Aviation Medicine, when it became apparent that the ballistocardiograph studies could not be carried forward satisfactorily because of the lack of clinical material.
Following his appointment to the K.U. School of Medicine staff as cardiovascular laboratory director, he was instrumental in having the machine sent to Kansas City for the joint research project.
The machine was developed after World War II at the air force school at a cost of $40,000 by Dr. Kurt R. Reissman and Capt. James Fancher. Dr. Reissman supervised the installation of the 2,500 pound machine at the Medical center.
Admiral Recommissioned As Kansas Navy Returns
Topcka—(U.P.)-Oliver Moorshead of Newton will continue as admiral and commander-in-chief of the Kansas navy.
Moorshead was recommissioned by Gov. Edward F. Arn, a day before the former was expected to return to Newton from a world cruise.
The Kansas "navy;" Arn said, has one and only one ship. It is Moorshead's private yacht
Moorshead has been admiral of the Sunflower fleet the past 20 years.
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