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winetourdriver01

(1,154 posts) Mon Mar 6, 2023, 11:44 AM Mar 2023

The First Ever X-ray Image

The first ever X-ray image was taken in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901. The image of his wife Bertha's hand (wedding ring clearly visible) propelled Röntgen into an international celebrity. Röntgen named the discovery X-rays, after the mathematical term 'X' which denotes something unknown. (Photo and caption by Nobel Prize Institute)

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The First Ever X-ray Image (Original Post) winetourdriver01 Mar 2023 OP

Classic image. .The Dose used to get this radiograph was in the realm of radiation therapy!! mitch96 Mar 2023 #1

Shielding? What's that? keithbvadu2 Mar 2023 #3

Bertha said, "I have seen my death." QED Mar 2023 #2

Huh, wonder why I can't have children? Ligyron Mar 2023 #4

I can remember going to the shoe store (Thom McCan shoes I think) and justhanginon Mar 2023 #5

In training I remember seeing those pic's of the "foot in a shoe box". You just reminded me mitch96 Mar 2023 #6

mitch96

(13,934 posts)

1. Classic image. .The Dose used to get this radiograph was in the realm of radiation therapy!!

Reply to winetourdriver01 (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 11:51 AM

Mar 2023

Factors to get films back then were very high... History from my previous profession...
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keithbvadu2

(36,981 posts)

3. Shielding? What's that?

Reply to mitch96 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 01:54 PM

Mar 2023

QED

(2,751 posts)

2. Bertha said, "I have seen my death."

Reply to winetourdriver01 (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 01:41 PM

Mar 2023

Ligyron

(7,640 posts)

4. Huh, wonder why I can't have children?

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Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:43 PM

Mar 2023

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

5. I can remember going to the shoe store (Thom McCan shoes I think) and

Reply to winetourdriver01 (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 02:49 PM

Mar 2023

they would have you stand on this machine and an xray would show your foot in the new shoe to see if it fit properly.
Yeah, I'm that old, born in 1936.

mitch96

(13,934 posts)

6. In training I remember seeing those pic's of the "foot in a shoe box". You just reminded me

Reply to justhanginon (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 6, 2023, 04:17 PM

Mar 2023

that in the early days they used X-ray to clear up acne... Uff RADS to the thyroid and eyes must have been horrible...
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