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Jul 4, 2002 · Dr. Alice M. Stewart, an epidemiologist who first demonstrated the link between X-rays of pregnant women and disease in their children, a finding that changed medical practice, died on June 23 in ...
Crucially, the study failed to find any link between x-rays in pregnancy and childhood cancer. It wasn’t until 1962 that Alice’s findings were vindicated by Brian MacMohan in a paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. MacMohan studied 734,243 children born in 37 maternity hospitals in the north-east of the United States from ...
Oct 23, 2014 · During the past century, imaging of the pregnant patient has been performed with radiography, scintigraphy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography (US). US imaging has emerged as the primary imaging modality, because it provides real-time images at relatively low cost without the use of ionizing radiation. This review begins with a discussion of the history and ...
- Carol B Benson, Peter M Doubilet
- 2014
Wilhelm Röentgen's serendipitous discovery of x rays provided medicine and especially perinatal medicine with a powerful new investigative tool. Röentgen was born in the Rhineland town of Lennep on 27 March 1845. His German father Friedrich and Dutch mother Charlotte were cousins, coming from a well known family of merchants.1 When Wilhelm was three, the family moved to Apeldoorn in the ...
- Peter M Dunn
- 2001
Jul 19, 2024 · The discovery of X-rays – a form of invisible radiation that can pass through objects, including human tissue – revolutionised science and medicine in the late 19th century. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923), a German scientist, discovered X-rays or Röntgen rays in November 1895. He was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics for this ...
- Kim Martins
Medical radiology has now existed for over a century. It all started in 1895 when Wilhelm Rönt gen discovered x-rays. On 28 December 1895 his manuscript “ On a New Kind of Ray ” was submitted to the Würzburg Physical Medical Institute. The essential features of x-rays were described and the new discovery aroused tremendous interest.
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The history of radiology timeline covers the Origins of Radiology from 1895 when Wilhelm Rontgen first discovered the X-ray, through to the decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. During this period, patients experienced quite invasive tests and knowledge of the dangers of radiation was growing. The 1970s are known as the “golden ...
