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Jan 1, 2011 · It was difficult to use x-rays in medicine before 1913 due to the high amount of voltage necessary for adequate images, which would often result in the source x-ray tube breaking down. In 1913, Coolidge designed a high vacuum x-ray tube that could serve as an intense and reliable source.
- Amy B. Reed
- 2011
Sep 6, 2011 · This article will characterize patients' anxieties about x-rays in the first quarter century of their use and demonstrate that long before Americans perceived radiation as a subtle and insidious threat to health, they were earnestly convinced of the overt power of x-rays to both heal and harm.
- Matthew Lavine
- 2012
Rather than ask why the X-ray was so little used in 1900 and 1909, it might be more productive to ask what happened that led to the increased X-ray use by the close of the first quarter of the 20 th century. One major change was in who was designated to operate the machine.
Nov 1, 2020 · A comparatively narrow banded combination of low residual gas pressure and voltage turned out essential to generate X-rays in detectable quantities. 125 years ago, Roentgen succeeded in weeks of tireless investigation, and, for the first time, correctly identified the physical background of X-rays.
- Rolf Behling
- 2020
May 26, 2024 · In the early days of X-ray use, many doctors and technicians were exposed to high levels of radiation without proper protection, leading to a range of health problems, including skin burns, hair loss, and even cancer.
Sep 17, 2015 · But overall, early use of X-rays was widespread and unrestrained, even to the degree that during the 1930’s and 1940’s, shoe stores offered free X-rays so that customers could see the bones in their feet.
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The hot cathode x-ray tube which uses thermionic emission was patented in 1913 and produced in 1917 by GE lead by William D. Coolige. Thus, the design of the modern tube is often still referred to as the Coolige tube. 1913. First Dedicated Radiograph of Breast Tissue. Mammography Predecessor.
