Radiology: the eyes that look into our inner body

History and development

08.11.1895    Discovery  x-rays (W.C. Roentgen)

29.08.1896    First (accidental) therapeutic application    (Despeignes)

28.12.1896    Publication  x-rays  (W.C. Roentgen)

1896        First intensifying screens

1898        First (deliberate) therapeutic application    (Freund & Schiff)

1900        Nobel prize Roentgen

1913        Heated cathode X-ray tube (Coolidge)*

1913        Grid (stationary)

1918        Invention of line focus principle (Prof. Goetze)

1920        Grid (moving)

1929        1st rotating-anode tube

1931        Tomography (Ziedses des Plantes AND Vallebona)

1946        NMR for spretroscopy

1948        First experimental X-ray image intensifier (Coltman)

1953        First commercial image intensifier (Westinghouse)

1972        CT (Hounsfield)

1973        MRI (Lauterbur)

1981        DSA (Mistretta)

*This was the first 'modern' X-ray tube. Previous tubes were gas discharge (ion) tubes.