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Robert Beck an early leader in medical scanning

Robert Beck, who did incisive early work on using radioactive materials for medical imaging, died Aug. 6 in Chicago. He was 80.

The cause was myelodysplasia, a blood disorder, said a spokesman for the University of Chicago, where Beck conducted his research from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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