Brazilian physician, born in São Paulo and deceased in Rio de Janeiro, creator of the abbreugraphy (1936), a method of photographic fixation of radioscopic images. Doctor with the thesis Influence of climate on civilization from the National Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro (1914), then he went to study radiology in Paris, where he dedicated himself to improving the semiotic resources of phthisiology, in view of his concern with the late diagnosis of tuberculosis.
He went on to direct the radiology studies at Santa Casa de Paris (1916) and there he began to develop his discoveries, such as simultaneous tomography, principles of radiogeometry and, the main one, the fluoroscopic screen, the abreugraphy, a method created to fix the observed image by means of a special camera (35 mm) by radioscopy, of low cost and speed that allowed an appreciable reduction in the number of fatal cases of tuberculosis and other diseases of the chest in its stage initial.
He returned to Brazil (1922), continued his investigations into radiodiagnosis, radiogeometry and radioscopy. Initially called roentgenfotografia because it is a combination of photography and X-rays, the Roentgen rays, the name abeugrafia was only defined at the I Brazilian Congress of Tuberculosis (1939). Initially used in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, its use has also become widespread for the research of cardiac lesions, tumors, mycoses, cancer, etc. He was a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Brazilian Institute of Sciences and died on January 30, in Rio de Janeiro, 26 days after his 68th birthday.
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
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