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The Development of Medical Imaging

Ron Stemple Thursday 1st January 1970

Medical imaging came to be at the turn of the twentieth century with the discovery of X-Rays and their power to penetrate the skin. Their short wave lengths and high energy allowed physicians to see broken bone, and chest X-Rays were used to in the early diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Computed Tomography, CT Scans, or CAT Scans Computed Axial Tomography were the second generation of X-Rays. Tomos is Greek for slice or section , graphia is describing. As named it describes an image of a particul…

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The Birth of Medical Imaging

Ron Stemple Thursday 1st January 1970

Medical imaging was discovered just like many of histories greatest inventions, by accident in 1895. Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen was working with electron beams in a glass tube and noticed a fluorescent screen in the lab glowing when the beam was turned on. He found that even though his screen was covered with heavy black cardboard, waves of some type penetrated it. He put items between the screen and the tube, and found that he could see through or into items. The most famous being his wife s ha…