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47
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8341
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11118
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Overview

Melvin Robert Jackson is affiliated with General Electric in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on medicine and environmental science. Throughout their career, Jackson has contributed notably to the subfields of radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging; public health, environmental and occupational health; health, toxicology and mutagenesis; and global and planetary change.

Their work reflects engagement with various key topics, including radiation dose and imaging, global health and surgery, radiology practices and education, climate change and health impacts, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. These areas illustrate a multidisciplinary approach bridging medical imaging technologies with global health and environmental concerns.

Jackson has published in Clinical Radiology, which stands as their most frequent publication venue with two papers. The recent papers include:

  • Re: Imaging inequality: exploring the differences in radiology between high- and low-income countries, 2024, Clinical Radiology
  • Sustainable imaging in the era of the climate emergency: a personal view, 2023, Clinical Radiology

The publications indicate an ongoing interest in how radiology intersects with issues of equity and sustainability, reflecting broader concerns within healthcare practice and policy in a global context.

The absence of frequent co-authors suggests Jackson operates mainly independently or collaborates with a broad network rather than consistent individual partners. There are no recorded book publications.

The scope of Jackson's research covers both technical and public health dimensions of radiology, linking the technicalities of radiation dose management and imaging methods with global health challenges and environmental science topics. Emphasis on climate change and health impacts situates their work within current global environmental concerns, integrating medical imaging's role within sustainability frameworks.

Best Publications

  • A review of very-high-temperature Nb-silicide-based composites

    B. P. Bewlay;M. R. Jackson;P. R. Subramanian;J. C. Zhao

  • The balance of mechanical and environmental properties of a multielement niobium-niobium silicide-based in situ composite

    B. P. Bewlay;M. R. Jackson;H. A. Lipsitt

  • Ultrahigh-temperature Nb-silicide-based composites

    B. P. Bewlay;M. R. Jackson;J.-C. Zhao;P. R. Subramanian

  • High-temperature refractory metal-intermetallic composites

    M. R. Jackson;B. P. Bewlay;R. G. Rowe;D. W. Skelly

  • Processing high-temperature refractory-metal silicide in-situ composites

    B. P. Bewlay;M. R. Jackson;P. R. Subramanian

  • Method for making a double-wall airfoil

    Melvin Robert Jackson;David William Skelly;Raymond Grant Rowe;Donald George LaChapelle

  • Double-wall airfoil

    Melvin R. Jackson;David W. Skelly;Raymond G. Rowe;Donald G. LaChapelle

  • Solidification processing of high temperature intermetallic eutectic-based alloys

    B.P. Bewlay;H.A. Lipsitt;M.R. Jackson;W.J. Reeder

  • Method of forming hollow channels within a component

    Ji-Cheng Zhao;Melvin Robert Jackson;Paul Leonard Dupree;James Ross Dobbs

  • Determination of the Nb–Cr–Si phase diagram using diffusion multiples

    J.-C Zhao;M.R Jackson;L.A Peluso

  • Mapping of the Nb-Ti-Si phase diagram using diffusion multiples

    J.-C. Zhao;M.R. Jackson;L.A. Peluso

  • The aluminization of platinum and platinum-coated IN-738

    M. R. Jackson;J. R. Rairden

  • Method for replacing blade tips of directionally solidified and single crystal turbine blades

    Bernard Patrick Bewlay;Melvin Robert Jackson

  • Double wall turbine parts

    Melvin Robert Jackson;David William Skelly;Raymond Grant Rowe;Donald George LaChapelle

  • Solid state SiC/Ni alloy reaction

    M. R. Jackson;R. L. Mehan;A. M. Davis;E. L. Hall

  • Assessment of a powder metallurgical processing route for refractory metal silicide alloys

    P. Jehanno;M. Heilmaier;H. Kestler;M. Boning

  • The Nb-Ti-Si ternary phase diagram: Evaluation of liquid- solid phase equilibria in Nb-and Ti-rich alloys

    B. P. Bewlay;M. R. Jackson;H. A. Lipsitt

  • Repair of advanced gas turbine blades

    Melvin Robert Jackson;Aaron Todd Frost;Shyh-Chin Huang;Charles Gitahi Mukira

  • Airfoils with improved strength and manufacture and repair thereof

    Melvin Robert Jackson;Aaron Todd Frost;Shyh-Chin Huang;Charles Gitah Mukira

  • High temperature braze material

    Richard P. Chesnes;Stephen J. Ferrigno;David E. Budinger;Melvin R. Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ji-Cheng Zhao
Ji-Cheng Zhao University of Maryland, College Park
Ronald Scott Bunker
Ronald Scott Bunker General Electric (United States)
Y. A. Chang
Y. A. Chang University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ching-Pang Lee
Ching-Pang Lee Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
John J. Lewandowski
John J. Lewandowski Case Western Reserve University
Lizhen Tan
Lizhen Tan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Martin Heilmaier
Martin Heilmaier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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