Ákos Kovács (radiologist)

Ákos Kovács
Akos Kovacs, Hungarian radiologist
Native name	Kovács Ákos
Born	(1903-04-07)April 7, 1903 Budapest, Hungary
Died	November 3, 1980(1980-11-03) (aged 77)
Nationality	Hungarian
Fields	Radiology

Ákos Géza Kovács (April 7, 1903 - November 3, 1980) was an internationally renowned Hungarian radiologist.

Biography

After finishing the Medical School of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Kovács became interested in radiology (a very new diagnostic field at that time), and studied its methods in different laboratories in Hungary and abroad. He was involved in the development of new radiological methods with the aim of overcoming the most important shortcoming of standard plain radiography that produces a single-directional image. His results were published in major international scientific journals of radiology.^[1][2]

Kovács who worked for the St. John's Hospital (1929-1952) and the St. Rokus Hospital (1952-1974) in Budapest, Hungary. He is credited with discovering a new method of X-ray imaging of the lowermost lumbar intervertebral foramen (named after him as the Kovacs method).^[3][4]

Selected publications

• Kovacs, A (1949). "Herniated Disks and Vertebral Ligaments on Native Roentgenograms". Acta Radiologica 32 (4): 287–303. doi:10.3109/00016924909136238. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
• Kovacs, A (1950). "X-ray examination of the exit of the lowermost lumbar root". Radiol Clin 19 (1): 6–13. PMID 15402775.  |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
• Kovacs, A (1955). "Subluxation and Deformation of the Cervical Apophyseal Joints". Acta Radiol 43 (1): 1–16. PMID 14349741. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
• Kovacs, Akos (1956). "Kephalalgia e Subluxatione artic. Cervicalis". Fortschr Roentgenstr 85 (8): 142–153. doi:10.1055/s-0029-1212960. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
• Kovacs, A (1961). "Roentgen Physiology of the Larynx". Acta Radiol 56 (December): 433–438. PMID 14458912. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
• Kovacs, A (1953). "Roentgen therapy of glioma of the eye". Klin Monbl Augenheilkd Augenarztl Fortbild. 122 (1): 43–51. PMID 13053688. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 
• Kovacs, A (1960). "Asymmetric roentgenography of the vocal chords". Acta Radiol 53 (June): 426–432. PMID 14411384. 
• Kovacs, A (1967). "Roentgenologic study of the laryngeal function in singers". Acta Radiol Diagn (Stockh). 6 (6): 548–560. PMID 6080080. 
• Kovacs, Akos (1974). "Observation of the Cervical Segment of the Spinal Canal by An Extension Device". Acta Radiol 15 (January): 33–42. doi:10.1177/028418517401500104. Retrieved 15 February 2015. 

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