G.Marchal • T.J.Vogl • J.P.Heiken • G.D.Rubin (Eds)

2005

Scanning and Contrast Protocols

The discovery of X-rays by Konrad Roentgen is one of the major milestones in the history of modern medicine, allowing for the first time a noninvasive look inside the patient. Two-dimensional X-ray images remained the basis of clinical radiology until the early 1970s when computerized cross-sectional imaging with computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound became routinely available.