This interview took place on January 16, 2013. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery focus on clinical investigations, papers on medical physics, image processing, or biological studies which have apparent clinical relevance are also published. I appreciated the opportunity to have this conversation. This is the introduction to the interview shared online, along with the full interview and I share it with gratitude:
“This is an interview with Dr. Kieran Murphy, an honorable member of Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology. The interview simply presents the highlight of the 10th CSIR, the future development of interventional radiology, and points out the aspect that China should especially focus on.
Murphy is professor and vice chair, director of Research, University of Toronto and deputy chief of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, MSH and Women’s Hospital Faculty of Medicine, Ontario, Canada. As a prolific inventor in brain and spine imaging and intervention, his favorite inventions of his own include: hand-held disposable ozone generator, the density and drug-eluting coronary stent design and the use of parathyroid hormone systemically in pulsed doses to integrate bone cement. He has made tremendous achievements in the use of imaging techniques to guide surgical intervention.”
The Essence of Invention 