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Wilhelm Rontgen dicovers the X-ray
The German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen made one of the most important medical discoveries of the modern age- radiographic imaging of the body. -
Discovery of Radioactivity
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Implements first use of systematic x rays testing
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Damadian discovers the concept of the MRI
Damadian Conceives of and proposes whole body MR scanner for the first time. -
Damadian aplies the idea of MRI to cancer
Damadian identifies T1/T2 differences between cancer and normal. He was seeking an MR signal difference in an important disease (cancer) that would prove his idea of an MR body scanner was a goal worth pursuing.