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| About the authors | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Wilhelm R�ntgen and the discovery | |
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| The scientific background | |
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| Nikola Tesla | |
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| R�ntgen and the discovery | |
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| Early reception of the discovery | |
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| The Nobel Prize | |
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| Early radiology | |
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| Ernest Wilson (1871-1911) | |
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| Corporal Edward Wallwork RAMC and radiation risks | |
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| Early pioneers | |
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| Defining the normal | |
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| Alban K�hler (1874-1947) | |
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| Sebastian Gilbert Scott | |
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| Kathleen Clark (1898-1968) and radiographic standardization | |
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| British Authors | |
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| Early departments | |
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| Medico-legal radiology | |
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| Border control | |
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| Military radiology | |
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| The Italo-Abyssinian War | |
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| The Greco-Turkish War | |
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| Walter Caverley Beevor and the Tirah Campaign | |
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| John Battersby and the River War | |
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| The Spanish-American War | |
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| The Boer War | |
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| Marie Curie and the First World War | |
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| Florence Stoney | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| Post 1945 | |
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| Radiology and popular culture | |
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| Radiology and paper ephemera | |
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| Radiology and art | |
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| Radiology and the cinema | |
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| Classical radiology | |
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| The plain film | |
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| Conventional tomography | |
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| The gastrointestinal tract | |
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| Contrast media and the renal tract | |
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| Traditional neuroradiology | |
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| Chest imaging including the tuberculosis screening story | |
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| Computed tomographic scanning | |
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| The development of computed tomography | |
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| Johann Radon | |
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| Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield | |
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| Developments in CT scanning | |
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| Willi Kalender and helical scanning | |
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| Multislice scanning and its clinical impact | |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging | |
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| Ultrasound | |
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| Karl Theodor Dussik (1908-1968) | |
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| John J. Wild (1914-2009) | |
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| Ian Donald (1910-1987) | |
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| Doppler ultrasound | |
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| The development of ultrasound | |
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| FAST ultrasound and bedside ultrasound | |
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| Digital imaging, picture archiving, and communication systems | |
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| The development of digital processing | |
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| Teleradiology | |
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| PACS and HIS/RIS | |
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| Interventional radiology | |
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| Development of angiography | |
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| Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) | |
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| Seldinger and his technique | |
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| Charles Dotter and angioplasty | |
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| Non-angiographic intervention | |
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| Image-guided biopsies and drainage | |
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| Modern interventional radiology | |
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| A history of mammography | |
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| Raoul Leborgne | |
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| Robert Egan and Charles Gros | |
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| Breast screening | |
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| Digital mammography | |
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| Breast biopsy and one-stop clinics | |
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| Pelvimetry | |
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| Gynaecography | |
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| Nuclear medicine and radioactivity: from nuclear biology to molecular imaging | |
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| Henri Becquerel and the Curies | |
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| The influence of nuclear medicine in the Second World War | |
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| Atoms for peace and Joseph Rotblat | |
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| Early nuclear medicine | |
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| The rectilinear scanner | |
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| Hal Anger and his camera | |
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| The development of PET and SPECT | |
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| Molecular imaging | |
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| Review and the future | |
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| The centrality of medical imaging to modern clinical medicine | |
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| Early British radiology journals | |
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| Early British radiology societies | |
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| Annotated bibliography and reading list | |
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| Index | |