Radiology in Motion

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Photographs capture what we can see with our eyes. But many important body functions and organs are on the inside and cannot be seen with our eyes or a regular camera.

Just over 100 years ago, Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered a new kind of radiant energy similar to light. The marvelous illumination had some wonderful properties—it could shine right through a human body, revealing the structure and health of the systems inside. We call these radiations “x-rays.”

X-rays are pictures made by passing radiant beams through an object and capturing the image on the other side. Solid objects, like bones, allow less light to pass through and appear white on the picture. Less solid objects, like organs in the body, allow more light to pass through and appear more gray on a picture.

Within months of Professor Roentgen’s discovery, doctors all over the world were using x-rays to diagnose illness and injury.