Roentgent's Life Flashcards
William Conrad Roentgen Birthdate
March 27, 1845
William Conrad Roentgen Parents
Father: Friedrich Conrad
Mother: Constance Charlotte Frowein
Wife of William Conrad Roentgen
Anna Bertha Ludwig
Year that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays while working in his modest laboratory at the university.
November 8, 1895
Roentgen submitted a report entitled, “On a new kind of rays” to the Wurzburg Physico-Medical Society
December 28, 1895
He developed colon trouble, which progressed, and in early 1923 he was diagnosed with _________.
terminal colon cancer.
He attempted to explain the nature of the rays to the citizen in the United States.
Thomas Alva Edison
It is thought that that the first known radiograph produced in the United States was made on _______, by ______, a professor at Columbia Univesity.
January 2, 1896, by Michael Idvorsky Pupin
He suffered severe radiation damage of the work.
Clarence Madison Dally
Three of the most prominent persons credited with this work were _____ and _______ and ________, who were jointly, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
Pierre and Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel
What did Pierre Curie noticed in radium?
radium killed diseased cells, which was the first suggestion of the medical utility of radioactivity.
She refined the knowledge of radioactivity and purified the radium metal.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie became acquainted with ________ and resumed her experiments with radium. However, her efforts were halted because of World War I.
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie developed approximately ___ mobile radiographic units and _____ installations for the army.
20
200
The branch of radiology using radioactive materials for medical diagnosis and treatment.
Nuclear Radiology
scintillation camera (anger camera) broadened the young discipline of nuclear medicine into a full-fledged medical imaging specialty.
Hal O. Anger’s
Discovery of artificial radioactivity in ____ and the production of radionuclides by oak ridge national laboratory for medicine related use, in 1946
1934
In 1932, He invented the cyclotron, chamber that made it possible to accelerate particles to high speeds for use as projectiles.
Ernest Lawrence
He made a significant breakthrough when he induced a successful chain reaction in a uranium pile at the University of Chicago in 1942. NUCLEAR RADIOLOGY
Enrico Ferni
These are capable of resolving structures smaller than the human eye can see.
Films
The development of _____, that is, man-made fibers with the unique characteristic of allowing light to curve, has had a significant impact on radiology and indeed on all disciplines of medicine.
fiber optics
Improvements _____ and _____ have made them more durable and have provided a tighter closure that allows better screen-film contact.
Cassettes and Film Holders
are five to six times those of previous screens, making it possible to decrease exposure factors.
Intensifying screen speeds
Routinely produce radiographs in 90 seconds; 60- and 45 second machines are also available.
Film processors
