X-rays in medicine
Rayos X aplicados al diagnóstico médico
- Date
- 1895 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Würzburg, Germany
- Credited to
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- People
- 👤 Wilhelm Röntgen1845–1923
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
The X-ray of Anna Bertha Röntgen's hand showed for the first time the inside of a living body without surgery. Within months, hospitals worldwide were X-raying fractures and bullets.
First Nobel Prize in Physics (1901).
What it led to
- diagnostic radiology
- radiotherapy
- CT scanning, mammography, densitometry
- X-ray crystallography and the structure of DNA
Built on
- Crookes tube
- physics of gas discharges
Made possible
- Cerebral angiography (Egas Moniz)1927
- Computed tomography (CT scanner)1971
- radiography
- fluoroscopy