History Of Radiology
What is Radiology?
Radiology is defined as the study of the internal anatomical structure by using radiation. In the medical field, radiology refers to the department in which your disease is diagnosed and treated by using radiation. These include diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, and radiotherapy. The common imaging modalities are x-rays, computed tomography (CT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, positron emission tomography (PET) scan, and fluoroscopy.
Radiology has been instrumental in the determination and treatment of an assortment of conditions, for example, fracture of bones, tumors, and cancers, cerebrum injury, coagulated arteries, strokes, ligament, and muscle harm, pneumonic conditions, spinal issues, and a whole lot more.
History of Radiology
Radiology has been around for longer than a century. Everything began when Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen found X-beams on 8th Nov 1895. In the wake of working for a considerable length of time in his lab probing the creation of ‘strange rays’, which he alluded to as ‘X’, he asked his wife, Anna Bertha, to loan ‘a hand’, the left one to be exact, which he used to deliver the first X-ray picture. This is currently known as ‘Hand Mit Ringen’. Allegedly she shouted in dread ‘I have seen my demise!’ in the wake of seeing the image. He got his first noble prize in physics after this discovery in 1901.
History of Radiology
1895
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen found x-rays
1896
Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity
1896
Sydney Rowland establish the first radiology journal, Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy
1896
Thomas Edison invents the first commercially-available fluoroscope after learning about the discovery of X-rays
1896
John Macintyre opened the world’s first radiology department in Glasgow
1898
Marie Curie published her paper ‘Rays emitted by uranium and thorium compounds’
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen got Noble prize for discovering x-rays.
1909
Mónico Sánchez Moreno invented first portable x-ray machine.
1913
Albert Salomon commences research leading to mammography
1913
William Coolidge launched his eponymous X-ray tube
1927
Egas Moniz developed cerebral angiography
1934
Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie produced radioisotopes artificially
1936
John Lawrence used phosphorus-32 to treat leukemia
1939
Kitty Clark published Clark’s Positioning in Radiography
1950s
David Kuhl invented Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Late 1950s
Robert Egan introduced mammography screening for the first time.
1953
Sven-Ivar Seldinger developed his famous technique
1957
Ian Donald developed fetal ultrasound
1964
Charles Dotter introduced image-guided intervention radiography
1965
Benjamin Felson published his Principles of Chest Roentgenology
1971
Godfrey Hounsfield introduced the CT scanner (co-developed with Allan Cormack)
1973
Paul Lauterbur developed a way to generate two-dimensional and three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He also published the first nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in this year.
1977
Ray Damadian build the first commercial MRI scanner
1983
Phosphor stimulated radiography system first used clinically.
1989
Spiral CT introduced
1990
The first direct radiography (DR) system was introduced which was CCD slot-scan system.