Show Heart Ailments and I Childbirth Studied Studied- by Uy a New Method I Devised I by hy a Dallas Physician I Dallas Texas Better Better di diagnosis diagnosis di di- of heart disorders is promised by j a new kind of X-ray X photography photography photo photo- raphy just presented to the medical profession by Robert Robert Robert Rob- Rob I ert H. H H Millwee Dallas phy phy- PhY 1 It enables enable scientists to study the ebbing and flowing of the blood Inthe in inthe n the heart For the time first also it makes possible undistorted photographs photo graphs of all bony structures within I Ithe the human body Childbirth and motherhood should v Ibe i ibe be made safer For permits the physician to determine accurately the dimensions of the mothers mother's pelvic bones and the exact size of the head of the baby that isto Isto is isto to be born The full name of this new tool of diagnostic medicine is slit scan scan- ray X-ray photography Distortion Is Avoided Basic feat of the new Millwee method is to take clear and undistorted un un- I distorted ray X-ray photographs of the human body and its various parts part To the layman perhaps the best way I to explain the value of the new tech tech- technique is to recall that in ordinary photography when one is s photographing photographing photo photo- photographing graphing a high building it Is necessary necessary I sary to adjust the camera so that in the resulting picture the lile building will not appear to be falling away t or toward the viewer of the picture t I tJust I tJust Just shooting the picture produces produces pro pro- produces duces the distortion that is so well known Dr Millwee's method achieves the lile same purpose in ray X-ray photography where distortion of size in the various parts of the picture I Imay may mean and has baa meant on occasions occasions oc OCt a wrong diagnosis In photography Dr Millwee explained the part of the I body to be pictured is covered with witha I a lead shield containing a series of slits silts The ray X-ray tube moves across this series of slits and thus takes a I series of long narrow pictures one I after the other on the ray X-ray negative nega nega- tive Uve By Dy varying the speed of movement movement move- move I ment of the ray X-ray tube exposures in adjacent sections are taken several sev era eral seconds apart as desired |