One hundred years of medical diagnostic imaging technology

Health Phys. 1995 Nov;69(5):695-720. doi: 10.1097/00004032-199511000-00006.

Abstract

Imaging technology for medical diagnostic purposes had its beginning with the discovery of x rays in 1895. Over the past 100 years, the technological advances of x-ray tubes, power generation, imaging detectors, imaging techniques, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound have been astounding. A look back at where we have been, where we are, and in some instances where we are going with respect to a range of imaging technologies is the focus of this paper.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Angiography / history
  • Angiography / instrumentation
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Humans
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / history
  • Nuclear Medicine / history
  • Nuclear Medicine / instrumentation
  • Radiography / history*
  • Radiography / instrumentation
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed / history
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed / instrumentation
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / history
  • Ultrasonography / history
  • X-Rays