Midterms | History of Medical Imaging

Question 1

When and what was the 1st medical image?

Answer 1

Roentgen’s wife (Hand)
Dec 1895

Question 2

X-ray is a type of — radiograph (2D)

Answer 2

planar

Question 3

X-ray projections

Answer 3

Anterior-Posterior (AP)
Postero-Anterior (PA)
Lateral

Question 4

Beset ptojection for CXR

Answer 4

PA Projection

Question 5

Identifies what is in contact with the CXT

Answer 5

Lead markers

Question 6

Types of x-rays

Answer 6

1. Static
2. Dynamic

Question 7

Static vs Dynamic X-rays

Answer 7

Static: image taken in a single point
Dynamic: series of images taken in a period of time

Question 8

Example of a dynamic x-ray

Answer 8

Fluoroscopy: Dyncamic examination of internal structures

Question 9

Who first invented CT Scan?

Answer 9

Godfrey Newbold Housfield

Question 10

What was the first CT scanner callled?

Answer 10

EMI Mark 1

Question 11

When was EMI Mark 1 invented?

Answer 11

1971 - 1972

Question 12

EMI Mark 1 first use

Answer 12

Initially used to a 40 year old woman pt with a brain lesion

Question 13

Property of unstable elements to undergo radiactive decay to become stable

Answer 13

Radioactivity

Question 14

Person that led to the development of Nuclear Medicine

Answer 14

Antoine Henri Becquerrel

Question 15

First nuc med image, year

Answer 15

Thyroid gland (1896)

Question 16

Other term for radioactive elements

Answer 16

Radiotracers

Question 17

What does red spots on nuc med indicate?

Answer 17

Malignant/ high activity within the area

Question 18

Father of Nuc Med

Answer 18

George de Hevesy

Question 19

What did de Hevesy develop?

Answer 19

Tracer Principle

Question 20

Tracer principle was first tried in (1), then to (2), then to (3)

Answer 20

1. plants
2. animals
3. humans

Question 21

Radiation produced from pair production

Answer 21

Annihilation radiation

Question 22

Who invented the Anger Scintillation Camera?

Answer 22

Hal Anger

Question 23

Other term for sound waves

Answer 23

Acoustic waves

Question 24

Started the interaction of acoustic wave in the media

Answer 24

Lord John Rayleigh

Question 25

Used in WWII in detecting objects in water which was later applied on medicine

Answer 25

Sonar

Question 26

Sonar led to the development of —

Answer 26

ultrasound

Question 27

Father of MRI

Answer 27

Raymond Damadian

Question 28

Damadian was the first to invent the first MRI Scanner called —

Answer 28

Indomitable

Question 29

MRI first use

Answer 29

First used to Larry Minkoff ( Seen: Thoracic Spine with Lungs)