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.
When were x-rays discovered?
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