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Developed chest photofluorography

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Manoel de Abreu

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Neuroradiologist and co-developer of the first CT scanner

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James “Jamie” Ambrose

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Discovered radioactivity

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

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German-born, American radiologist who pioneered the development of anti-scatter grids in projectional radiography with his invention called ____? (Name the radiologist and his invention)

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Gustav Bucky
Bucky diaphragm

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Standardized radiographic techniques and education

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Kathleen “Kitty” C. Clark

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American physicist who revolutionised radiology with his groundbreaking x-ray tube

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Willliam D. Coolidge

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Identify

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Coolidge tube from 1917

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South African-American physicist who was instrumental in the development of CT (physics underpinning CT)

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Allan Macleod Cormack

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Discoverer of polonium and radium

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Marie Skłodowska Curie​

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Pioneer in the field of MRI and inventor of one of the first MRI scanners

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Raymond V. Damadian

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Scottish obstetrician who pioneered the diagnostic use of ultrasound in medicine

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Ian Donald

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Father of interventional radiology who in 1964 performed the very first peripheral angioplasty, and made many other major contributions in this field

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Charles T. Dotter

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Invented fluoroscopy

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Thomas Edison

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Popularized Aunt Minnie, silhouette sign, chest x-ray textbook

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Benjamin Felson

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Renowned chest radiologist who had two distinguished careers, first in Vienna, before the Second World War, and secondly in Boston, Massachusetts, after fleeing Europe in 1938. The Fleischner Society was named in dedication to him

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Felix Fleischner

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Pioneering radiologist who played a pivotal role in establishing radiology as a specialty in its own right

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Charles Thurstan Holland

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Physicist who worked with James Ambrose in making the first CT scan

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Godfrey Hounsfield

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Globally-renowned cardiothoracic radiologist who is primarily remembered now for his Kerley lines but in his lifetime was famed for his uncanny imaging diagnostic abilities, co-editing the famous ‘A Text-book of X-Ray Diagnosis by British Authors’, and co-founding the Faculty of Radiologists

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Peter Kerley

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A German radiologist best known for both his work in describing avascular necrosis of the navicular and the publication of ‘Roentgenology - The Borderlands of the Normal and Early Pathological in the Skiagram’ a textbook exploring anatomical variations and anomalies

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Alban Köhler

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Pioneering nuclear physician, who played a key role in the development of positron emission tomography (PET), and more generally nuclear medicine

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David E. Kuhl

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One of the co-developers of MRI, and experimented on using a rotating gradient magnetic field to in turn produce images of liquid

He coined the term “zeugmatography” for MRI in his seminal paper on MRI in Nature in 1973

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Paul Lauterbur

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He invented line-scan imaging, a ground-breaking concept that allows specific slices of material to be imaged via nuclear magnetic resonance.

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Peter Mansfield

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Invented a technique where fast switching magnetic field gradients could be used to form an image significantly faster, known as echo-planar imaging.

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Peter Mansfield

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Portuguese neurologist that is notable in radiology history for his development of cerebral angiography in 1927

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Antonio Egas Moniz

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Pioneered aortography by radial artery catheterization

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Stig Radner

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Described mathematics enabling tomography

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Johann Radon

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American radiologist who is remembered for his contributions to radiology education in the United States, in particular, the development of the radiology-pathology teaching program at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

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Maurice “Mo” M Reeder

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German physicist who is celebrated globally for his discovery of x-rays

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Wilhelm Roentgen

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Date of x-ray discovery

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8 November 1895

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Founder and editor of the Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy, the first journal of radiology to be published anywhere in the world

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Sydney D. Rowland

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German surgeon, was the first physician to study x-rays of breast tissue.

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Albert Salomon

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“Father” of neuroradiology

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Arthur Schüller

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Swedish radiologist, is primarily remembered for the invention of his revolutionary Seldinger technique.

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Sven-Ivar Seldinger

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