William Coolidge explains medical imaging and X-rays. An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength …

Highlights of X-ray radiology from the discovery of x-rays through its multiple uses including: radiography, fluoroscopy, mammography, cardiac catherization, digital subtraction …

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) who was a Professor at Wuerzburg University in Germany. Working with a cathode-ray tube in his laboratory, …

Jul 19, 2024 · In February 1890, American physicist Arthur Willis Goodspeed (1860-1943) took the first X-ray image. He experimented with electrical discharges in a Crookes tube (an early …

Feb 18, 2020 · He created the very first X-ray by capturing the image of the bones of his wife’s hand. When she looked at the image, his wife is said to have cried, “I have seen my death!” …

May 6, 2024 · Explore the history of X-rays, from Roentgen's groundbreaking discovery to Marie Curie's mobile X-ray units in WWI and the evolution of radiologic technology over the decades.

Sep 17, 2015 · But not so long ago, a broken bone, a tumor, or a swallowed object could not be found without cutting a person open. Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, …

All three discoveries, X rays, uranium rays, and the elec- tron, followed from one of the major experimental traditions in the second half of the nineteenth century, the study of the discharge …

X-ray images are initially a novelty. However, by the end of the year, doctors around the world, including those in New Zealand, are using them. 1946 – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. …

Nov 8, 2020 · They were first discovered on 8 November 1895 when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen stumbled across their effects to create images on fluorescent screens, and subsequently on …