Ronald J. Ross

Ronald J. Ross is a Cleveland, Ohio radiologist known for research on brain injury in professional and amateur boxers[1] and for the first clinical use of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR later known as MRI) on human patients.

[2] Ross is also credited with the first use of head and whole body computed tomography imaging (CT) in a private clinical setting in the United States.

After completing his internship and residency in radiology in Cleveland, Ross was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and Government of Sweden Award in 1964 to complete his fellowship studies in radiology at Karolinska University Hospital.

[4] In the mid-1970s, he opened the first U.S. based private diagnostic imaging center that featured a whole body CT scanner for clinical use.

[5] Ross's medical research includes brain damage in boxers and the MRI evaluation of diseases of the breast.