Melvin P. Siedband, Ph.D.,P.E.Certified Medical Physicist (ABMP)
3052 Woods Edge Way
Fitchburg, Wisconsin 53711
Education:
BA (Math) University of Washington, MS (Applied Math) Johns Hopkins University, PhD (Medical Physics) Medical College of Wisconsin.
Certifications:
Professional Engineer (P.E., Wisconsin and Maryland). First Class Radiotelephone License (FCC), Certification in Medical Imaging Physics (ABMP)
Career:
Professor Emeritus of Medical Physics and Radiology, Chairman of the Biomedical Engineering Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Retired 1992.
Radio Repairman (US Army), Design Engineer (Radar Systems at Westinghouse Aerospace Division), Fellow Engineer (Image Tubes at Westinghouse Applied Research Laboratory), Engineering Manager (Westinghouse X-Ray Division), Professor (University of Wisconsin Department of Medical Physics), presently Physics/Engineering Consultant (Semi-Retirement).
Conducted Research at Sinai and Johns Hopkins Hospitals with Dr. Marvin Nachlas on defibrillation, diastolic perfusion, susceptibility to electric shock. Developed the “Iron Heart”, Cardiac Miniscope, capacitor discharge defibrillator (manufactured by Westinghouse and others). Worked briefly with Dr. Wm Kouwenhoven (of Johns Hopkins, the developer of defibrillators, a very high honor!) to develop a type of half-cycle defibrillator.
While at Westinghouse, developed many products based on my inventions. These include: track-while–scan radar, storage oscilloscope, silicon target camera tube, magnetic radar modulator, infrared camera tube, negative resistance signal enhancement, various magnetic amplifier products, defibrillator, external cardiac massage apparatus, cardiac monitor, over-the-horizon radar, and other products. Medical imaging and x-ray products developed include: automatic fluoro brightness stabilizer, anode rotor control, image storage and differencing system, anode heat unit integrator, pulsed x-ray system, overload protective device, various high voltage power supplies for image intensifiers including variable magnification tube and power supply.
While at the University of Wisconsin, work for outside clients and at the University resulted in other inventions and new products: fiber optic line generator, kVp meter, bruxism therapy device, flywheel-powered x-ray generator, narrow-spectrum metal oxide beam filters, radiation alarm, integrated dose/exposure sensor with electronic readout, various x-ray generator machine designs, microfocus x-ray tube, self-shielded ceramic x-ray tube, x-ray tube heads (complete high-voltage assembly) for bone density machines, mAs meter, single unit ion chamber/electrometer and other products. More than fifty patents in all. An improved filtered block truncation image compression method now in common use was also developed.
The Gammex Corporation sponsored my research and thesis work on a radiotherapy beam analyzer. This also resulted in a US patent. Design work for Nuclear Associates resulted in the first electronic kVp meter, the mAs meter, the Radcheck (ion chamber-electrometer) and several other test instruments for quality control in diagnostic radiology and for the calibration of x-ray machines.
U.S. Government sponsored research resulted in dose reduction filters for mammography, photographic image differencing methods, improved high frequency x-ray generators, digital image processing, development of a compact field x-ray machine.
Publications [Up to 15]:
- Siedband MP and Sternglass EJ, Fluoroscopic Dose Reduction and Image Differencing by Electronic Storage Means, Sixth Rochester Symp. on Cineradiology, April 26, 1968
- Siedband MP, Jacobson AF, Cameron JR and Wagner J, Test Cassette for Measuring Peak Tube Potential of Diagnostic X-Ray Machines, Medical Physics, January 1976
- Siedband MP, Beam Filtration in Diagnostic Radiology, National Bureau of Stds. Symp. on Real-Time Radiog., Washington, May 1978. ASTM-STP 716, Philadelphia, 1980
- Siedband MP, Direct Reading kVp Test Device, RSNA/AAPM Combined Meeting, Dallas, November 1980. US Patent issued.
- Siedband MP, Zhang H, Gray J, Block Truncation Image Compression w/ Bit Map Compensation, J. of Computers in Physics, Nov. 1989
- Siedband MP, Beam Filtration in Radiology, World Conference on Medical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, July, 1991
- Siedband MP, Jacobson A, Translation of Production des Rayons-X (by Yves Duriez), Medical Physics Pub. Co. Madison, 1978 (perm. of Masson et Cie, Paris, 1971)
- Siedband MP, Chapter 7, Fluoroscopic Imaging, in Physical Basic of Medical Imaging, Craig Coulam (ed.), Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1981 (and subseq. editions)
- Siedband MP, Chapter 10, Image Intensification and Television in Radiology, Taveras and Ferrucci (eds.), JB Lippencott, 2nd Ed, 1990
- Siedband MP, Chapter 12, Medical Imaging in Biomedical Instrumentation, Webster (ed.) Houghton Mifflin, 4th ed. December 2004
Awards:
Westinghouse Most Meritorious Patent Award (two times)
“Know Your Madisonian”, Madison Newspapers, 1994
Fellow, AAPM, 1999
American Association of Physicists in Medicne (AAPM) Activities
Chair, Diagnostic Radiology Task Group for Quality Assurance (Resulted in AAPM Report
No. 4, QA in Diagnostic Radiology)
Member, various committees
Additional Professional Organization Activities:
Chair, Group on Image Forming Sensors, Infrared Information Symposium (IRIS)
Member, Electronic Imaging Group, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Member, Equipment Specification Committee, American College of Radiology
Reviewer: Radiology, Applied Radiology, JBIR
Additional Professional Organization Activities:
Consultant on Electronic Instrumentation to UNESCO/University of Singapore
Consultant to Underwriters Labs, National Electrical Manufacturers Ass’n, US Army
Medical Research, Madison Police Department, NIH, CDRH
Civic Activities:
Member, Madison West Rotary Club
Avocations and Special Interests:
Amateur Radio (N9HXP), electronic gadgets, photography, sailing, travel
Family:
Married to Dorothy Shilmover (1950), two sons (Marc and Rick), four exceptional
grandchildren (David, Michael, Elan, Kyla), one granddog (Ginger)
December 2004