History of medical imaging

• roentgen's wife (left hand)

  1st medical image
• December 1895


  when was the 1st medical image made
• February 1896; Department of physics institute of medical society, wurzburg university


  when was the first medical image published and what institute
• clarence dally (age 39, skin cancer)


  first casualty as a result of x-ray exposure (indicate age and cause of death)
• planar radiograph


  acquired 2D images from X-ray
• AP/PA/Lateral


  first views/projections that were used publicly during wide use of x-ray examinations
• static (conventional radiography, CT scan, Mammography)


  a type of planar radiograph where the images are taken in a single point (give examples)
• dynamic (DSA, MRI, Ultrasound, Fluoroscopy, Nuclear Medicine)

  a type of planar radiograph where a series of images are taken in a period of time (give examples)
• Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield


  father of CT scan
• EMI Mark 1


  1st CT scanner
• 1971-1972


  first development of CT scanner
• woman patient with a brain lesion

  what was the first CT-exam
• Antoine henri becquerel (1896)


  who discovered radioactivity (year?)
• thyroid gland


  1st nuclear image
• george de hevesy


  father of nuclear medicine
• tracer principle


  george de hevesy also developed what principle?
• first trial for the tracer principle happened in plants then to animals then to humans
• hal anger


  invented the anger scintillation camera
• anger scintillation camera


  nuclear medicine imaging device used to detect radiation to the part of interest
• Lord john rayleigh


  studied the interaction of acoustic waves in media
• Sound navigation and ranging

  SONAR stands for
• Sonar


  used as a basis for developing ultrasounf or transducer
• SONAR was used in WWII in detecting objects in water
• Raymond Damadian


  Father of MRI
• indomitable


  what did raymond damadian call the first MRI scanner
• the first MRI scanner was first used to Larry Minkoff where the thoracic spine with lungs are seen