Guido Holzknecht

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Guido Holzknecht (December 3, 1872 - October 30, 1931) was an Austrian radiologist who was a native of Vienna. He studied in Strasbourg, Konigsberg and Vienna, and in 1905 became director of the X-ray laboratory at Vienna General Hospital. He later extablished a central radiology department at the hospital, which became known as the "Guido Holzknecht Institute". With radiologist Robert Kienböck (1871-1953), he was co-founder of the Wiener Röntgengesellschaft (Vienna Radiology Society).

Guido Holzknecht was a pioneer in the field of radiology, and in 1902 devised a dosimeter called a "chromoradiometer". Like several other physicians in the early days of radiology, he died from the consequences of radiation damage.

• Associated eponyms:
• Holzknecht´s space: Also known as retro-cardiac space. It is located between the posterior wall of the heart and the vertebral column.
• Holzknecht-Jacobson phenomena: Sometimes referred to as a "swinging mediastinum", which is displacement of respiratory mediastinum.

[edit] Selected writings

• Röntgenologische Diagnostik der Erkrankung der Brusteingeweide (Radiology Diagnostics of Breast Cancer), 1901
• Röntgendiagnostik des Magenkrebses (1905).
• Röntgenologie, 2 vols., (Radiology) 1918/1924
• Röntgentherapie, (X-Ray Therapy) 1924
• Einstellung zur Röntgenologie, (Attitudes to Radiology) 1927
• Handbuch der theoretischen und klinischen Röntgenkunde, 2 vols., (Handbook of Theoretical and Clinical X-Ray Studies), (1929).

[edit] References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.