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A cardiologist who wanted everyone protected
Dr. Wilson spent his career in the cath lab: he directed the University of Minnesota Medical Center’s cardiac catheterization laboratory from 1988 to 2004 and still practices there. Over those years he watched colleagues develop illnesses linked to radiation, and saw what decades in a heavy lead apron do to backs and necks.
“Over the years I had a number of friends who had clearly radiation-related problems, including cancer, and it seemed like we ought to be able to protect everybody that works in this environment.”Dr. Robert Wilson, CEO, 2024 · Watch at 1:32
Before designing anything, the team measured where scatter goes. Using a phantom that scatters x-rays the way a patient does, they recorded dose from the floor to two meters up at six places staff stand around the table, and found the highest doses at the head of the table, where nurses, anesthesia and echo staff work, not at the operator’s position. That is why EggNest was designed to protect the whole room.
Dr. Bob Wilson, LSI 2024 interview (3 minutes). Dr. Wilson on the scatter radiation everyone in the lab receives, why he set out to protect the whole team, the first EggNest, and what heavy lead aprons cost the people who wear them.