The history of radiology / by Adrian M.K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Adrian M. K., author.

Banerjee, Arpan K., author.

Series:

Oxford medical histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical radiology--History.

Medical radiology.

History.

Radiology--History.

Radiology.

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

In 1890, Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania, USA, was working with an English-born photographer, William N. Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings was overlooked, and the formal discovery of X-rays was credited to Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895. The discovery has since transformed the practice of medicine, and over the course of the past 130 years, the development of new radiological techniques has continued to grow. The impact has been seen in virtually every hospital in the world, from the routine use of ultrasound for pregnancy scans, through to the diagnosis of complex medical issues such as brain tumours. More subtly, X-rays were also used in the discovery of DNA and in military combat, and their social influence through popular culture can be seen in cartoons, books, movies, and art. Written by two radiologists who have a passion for the history of their field, The History of Radiology is a beautifully illustrated review of the remarkable developments within radiology and the scientists and pioneers who were involved. This engaging and authoritative history will appeal to a wide audience including medical students studying for the Diploma in the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries (DHMSA), doctors, medical physicists, medical historians, and radiographers. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Wilhelm Röntgen and the discovery 1

The scientific background 1

Nikola Tesla 1

Röntgen and the discovery 3

Early reception of the discovery 6

The Nobel Prize 9

2 Early radiology 11

Ernest Wilson (1871-1911) 12

Corporal Edward Wallwork RAMC and radiation risks 14

Early pioneers 18

Defining the normal 20

Alban Köhler (1874-1947) 23

Sebastian Gilbert Scott 24

Kathleen Clark (1898-1968) and radiographic standardization 26

British Authors 29

Early departments 30

Medico-legal radiology 33

Border control 35

3 Military radiology 37

The Italo-Abyssinian War 38

The Greco-Turkish War 39

Walter Caverley Beevor and the Tirah Campaign 41

John Battersby and the River War 42

The Spanish-American War 43

The Boer War 43

Marie Curie and the First World War 45

Florence Stoney 48

The Second World War 55

Post 1945 55

4 Radiology and popular culture 59

Radiology and paper ephemera 59

Radiology and art 66

Radiology and the cinema 68

5 Classical radiology 73

The plain film 73

Conventional tomography 75

The gastrointestinal tract 77

Contrast media and the renal tract 80

Traditional neuroradiology 87

Chest imaging including the tuberculosis screening story 93

6 Computed tomographic scanning 97

The development of computed tomography 97

Johann Radon 99

Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield 99

Developments in CT scanning 108

Willi Kalender and helical scanning 112

Multislice scanning and its clinical impact 113

7 Magnetic resonance imaging 117

8 Ultrasound 123

Karl Theodor Dussik (1908-1968) 123

John J. Wild (1914-2009) 126

Ian Donald (1910-1987) 127

Doppler ultrasound 133

The development of ultrasound 134

FAST ultrasound and bedside ultrasound 136

9 Digital imaging, picture archiving, and communication systems 139

The development of digital processing 139

Teleradiology 143

PACS and HIS/RIS 144

10 Interventional radiology 149

Development of angiography 149

Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) 151

Seldinger and his technique 152

Charles Dotter and angioplasty 153

Non-angiographic intervention 154

Image-guided biopsies and drainage 156

Modern interventional radiology 156

11 A history of mammography 161

Raoul Leborgne 162

Robert Egan and Charles Gros 162

Breast screening 163

Digital mammography 163

Breast biopsy and one-stop clinics 164

Pelvimetry 165

Gynaecography 166

12 Nuclear medicine and radioactivity: from nuclear biology to molecular imaging 171

Henri Becquerel and the Curies 172

The influence of nuclear medicine in the Second World War 178

Atoms for peace and Joseph Rotblat 179

Early nuclear medicine 182

The rectilinear scanner 184

Hal Anger and his camera 185

The development of PET and SPECT 189

Molecular imaging 190

13 Review and the future 193

The centrality of medical imaging to modern clinical medicine 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780199639977

0199639973

OCLC:

847140400