SFR announces death of Dr. Georges Salamon

The French Society of Radiology (SFR) has announced the death of former president Dr. Georges Salamon, who was regarded widely as a great anatomist and neuroradiologist.

Dr. Georges Salamon. Photo courtesy of the SFR. Salamon was well-known both in Europe and the U.S., and he moved between the continents throughout his long career. He was chairman of the department of radiology at the University of Marseille, France, between 1975 and 1985; head of neuroradiology at Hospital "La Timone" in Marseilles from 1972 to 1996; and chief of the Research Laboratory of Neuroradiology at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) in Marseilles between 1972 and 1995. He was president of SFR in 1995.

After he retired from clinical practice in France, Salamon worked as a radiology researcher the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and as a fellow of Northwestern University's Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago. His main research interests were correlative studies between brain anatomy and brain imaging, new morphologic methods of brain imaging, correlations of brain imaging with computed analytic studies, and diffusion tract imaging at hemispheric, brainstem, or cerebellar levels.