title: Raupp: 50 years of neuroradiology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evaluate the laboral and intellectual contributions of a founder of Brazilian Neuroradiology to the development of specialty.
  
  
  METHODS
  Interviews were conducted with Dr. Raupp and contemporary doctors. Then we made a literature review with the Raupp search term aiming to identify those papers which included major changes in the diagnostic and therapeutic neurosurgical.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The colleagues consulted were unanimous in recognizing the work of avant-garde and the importance of Dr. Raupp to the development of neuroradiological methods, especially in the pre-computed tomography fase.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The work of Dr. Raupp was fundamental for the consolidation of Brazilian Neuroradiological School over the past five decades. He developed diagnostic and therapeutic techniques in congruence with the practices of the specialty on the global stage and he promoted education through medical residency programs.
authors.affiliation: SERPAL Clínica de Diagnóstico, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. daisondias@yahoo.com.br
authors.forename: Daison Nelson Ferreira
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Dias
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000266:history; D009485:Neuroradiography / Q000266:history*