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The 1st such illustrated background explores the evolution and diversity of X-rays, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, and different kinds of scientific imaging, and examines their outcomes for drugs, social mores, and artwork. UP.
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Some of the rays will make it all the way through in a straight line, from the cathode ray tube, through the subject, to leave their black imprint on the plate. But most of the rays do not have such a direct path. Some X-rays are stopped entirely when they encounter a substance that absorbs them. A white spot on the plate records their failure to get all the way through. This white image is, in effect, the shadow of the object that absorbed the X-rays. Lead will absorb all the rays, and other metals and bone will absorb a great many, so they show up as white silhouettes on the radiographs.
First transmission section scan of a living human thorax, 1965 154 30 First clinical prototype EMI brain scanner, 1972 159 31. First clinical CT image 160 32. Five CT brain scans, 1974-1980 164 33. MRI of normal spine 174 34. Fetal mice in the living womb 190 35. Surgery performed in an open MRI machine 192 36. MRI of brain with multiple sclerosis 195 37. MRI of brain with pituitary macroadenoma 196 38. MRI of ruptured silicone breast implant 197 39. MRI of human molar 200 40. Whole body PET/FDG study 212 41.