History of radiology
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Gaillard F, Sciacca F, Bell D, et al. History of radiology. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 25 Feb 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-24455
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The history of radiology can be traced back to Wilhelm Roentgen taking the first x-ray of a person - specifically his wife's hand on November 8th 1895, now an iconic image.
Since then there have been many milestones and individual contributions leading to the development and refinement of the various modalities and techniques currently being performed in imaging departments around the world.
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- key milestones
- 1880: Pierre Curie discovered piezoelectricity
- 1895: Wilhelm Roentgen detects x-rays
- 1896: Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity
- 1896: Sydney Rowland founds the first radiology journal, Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy
- 1896: Thomas Edison invents the first commercially-available fluoroscope
- 1896: John Macintyre opens the world's first radiology department in Glasgow
- 1898: Marie Curie publishes her paper 'Rays emitted by uranium and thorium compounds'
- 1913: Albert Salomon commences research leading to mammography
- 1913: William Coolidge introduces his eponymous x-ray tube
- 1927: Egas Moniz develops cerebral angiography
- 1934: Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie artificially produce radioisotopes
- 1936: John Lawrence uses phosphorus-32 to treat leukemia
- 1939: Kitty Clark publishes Clark’s Positioning in Radiography
- 1950s: David Kuhl invents Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- 1953: Sven-Ivar Seldinger develops his famous technique
- 1957: Ian Donald invents fetal ultrasound
- 1964: Charles Dotter introduces image-guided intervention
- 1965: Benjamin Felson publishes his Principles of Chest Roentgenology
- 1971: Godfrey Hounsfield introduces the CT scanner (co-developed with Allan Cormack)
- 1977: Ray Damadian builds the first commercial MRI scanner
- 1989: spiral CT introduced
- 2005: Frank Gaillard creates Radiopaedia.org :)
- 2012: inaugural International Day of Radiology
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key figures in the history of radiology
- Manoel de Abreu
- James Ambrose
- Antoine Béclère
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
- Gustav Bucky
- James Bull
- John Caffey
- Eugene W Caldwell
- Kathleen "Kitty" Clark
- John Wesley Coltman
- William D Coolidge
- Allan M Cormack
- Marie Curie
- Pierre Curie
- Ray V Damadian
- Walter E Dandy
- Ian Donald
- Charles T Dotter
- Thomas A Edison
- Ben Felson
- Felix Fleischner
- Jacques Forestier
- Ronald Grainger
- Charles Thurstan Holland
- Godfrey N Hounsfield
- Frederick Joliot
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- Theodore Eliot Keats
- Peter Kerley
- Alban Köhler
- David E Kuhl
- Paul C Lauterbur
- John Macintyre
- Peter Mansfield
- Egas Moniz
- Philip ES Palmer
- Stig Radner
- Johann Radon
- Maurice M Reeder
- Wilhelm C Roentgen
- Sydney D Rowland
- Albert Salomon
- Arthur Schüller
- Sven-Ivar Seldinger
- Jean-Athanase Sicard
- Albert Soiland
- Robert Steiner
- Florence Stoney
- Juan M Taveras
- William L Thompson
- Henry Snowden Ward
- Alessandro Vallebona: pioneer of tomography
- Ian Young
- Bernard G Ziedses des Plantes: pioneer of tomography
- Nobel Prize winners in radiology
- history of modalities
- plain radiography
- fluoroscopy
- nuclear medicine
- SPECT
- PET
- ultrasound
- CT
- MRI
- interventional radiology
- obsolete imaging techniques
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radiology journals
- American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR)
- American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)
- American X-Ray Journal
- Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy
- Archives of the Roentgen Ray
- BJR|Artificial Intelligence
- BJR|case reports
- BJR|Open
- British Journal of Radiology (BJR)
- Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
- Clinical Radiology
- Dentomaxillofacial Radiology
- Emergency Radiology
- European Radiology
- Imaging
- Journal de Radiologie
- Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology (JMIRO)
- Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)
- Journal of the Faculty of Radiologists
- Neurographics
- RadioGraphics
- Radiology
- RCR Open
- Seminars in Roentgenology
- radiology meetings
-
radiology organizations
- Australia
- Canada
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- United States
- international
- Asian Oceanian Society of Radiology (AOSR)
- Colegio Interamericano de Radiologia (CIR)
- European Society of Radiology (ESR)
- Fleischner Society
- International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
- International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists (ISRRT)
- International Society of Radiology (ISR)
- International Society for the History of Radiology (ISHRAD)
- RAD-AID
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pioneering radiology books
- Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease
- Practical Radiography: A Hand-Book of the Applications of the X-Rays
- Reeder and Felson's Gamuts in Radiology
- Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist
- Roentgenology - The Borderlands of the Normal and Early Pathological in the Skiagram
- The Roentgen Rays in Medicine and Surgery as an Aid in Diagnosis and as a Therapeutic Agent
- Textbook of X-ray Diagnosis by British Authors