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Demonstrated a flexible fiber-optic gastroscope using a coherent bundle of glass fibers for direct visualization.
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The record is the exact four-author 1958 Gastroenterology report and the demonstrated instrument. It does not absorb earlier optical-fiber work, later commercial endoscopes, colonoscopy or all subsequent clinical validation.
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- PubMed record for the fiberscope gastroscope demonstration
- Peer-reviewed history of fiber-optic endoscopy
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B. I. Hirschowitz; L. E. Curtiss; C. W. Peters; H. M. Pollard
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Hirschowitz and colleagues: demonstration of the fiberscope gastroscope
Demonstrated a flexible fiber-optic gastroscope using a coherent bundle of glass fibers for direct visualization.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact four-author 1958 Gastroenterology report and the demonstrated instrument. It does not absorb earlier optical-fiber work, later commercial endoscopes, colonoscopy or all subsequent clinical validation.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
B. I. Hirschowitz; L. E. Curtiss; C. W. Peters; H. M. Pollard
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.