Edward Joseph Hoffman (1942 to 2004) helped invent the first human positron emission tomography scanner, a whole-body scanning procedure widely used to detect diseases such as cancer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he earned a chemistry degree at Saint Louis University in 1963 and a doctorate in nuclear chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis in 1970. In 1972 he joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine, where with Michael Phelps and Michel Ter-Pogossian he developed the PET scanner in 1973. He moved with Phelps to the University of Pennsylvania in 1975, became a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from 1976, and edited the journal IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
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Hoffman was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
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He died of liver cancer in Los Angeles.
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helped invent the first human PET scanner
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January 1, 1942, July 1, 2004
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Hoffman was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
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helped invent the first human PET scanner
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