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Birthdate of Roentgen

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March 27, 1845

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Birthplace of Roentgen

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Remscheid-Lennep, Geemany

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Father of Roentgen

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Friedrich Conrad

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Mother of Roentgen

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Constance Charlotte Frowein

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Roentgen was an _______ of Friedrich and Charlotte

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Only child

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Wife of Roentgen

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Anna Bertha Ludwig, a waitress of a local inn Zum Grunen Glas that caught Roentgen’s eyes

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Birthdate of Anna Bertha Ludwig

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April 22, 1839

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Place where did Anna Bertha Ludwig caught Roentgen’s eyes

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A local inn Zum Grunen Glas

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When did Roentgen ask for Bertha’s hand in marriage?

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August 6, 1868

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When was Bertha and Wilhem married?

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January 19, 1872

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On ________, Roentgen returned to _________ as a professor of __________ and director of the new Physical Institute at the ____________.

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October 1, 1888
Wurzburg
Physics
University of Wuzburg

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  • On ___________ Roentgen discovered ________ while working in his modest labratory at the university.
  • When he shielded the tube plate of ________, he notoced that there was a presence of _________ in which he can visualize his _______ bone structure.
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November 8, 1895
X-rays
Platinocyanide
Glow
Bone structure

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Whar did roentgen do

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  1. Roentgen selected the Hittorf-Crookes tube
  2. Encased it in cardboad
    3 connected it onto his Ruhmkorff coil
  3. Darkened the room
  4. Activated the coil so as to oass the current through the tube
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Roentgen discovered that by placing his hand between the tube and a piece of cardboard coates wigh harium plantinocyde, he could actually vusualize the bones of his hand, thus demonstrating the ___________.

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primitive fluoroscopic screen

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On _________, Roentgen submitted a report entitled ________ also known as _________ in german to the ___________.

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December 28, 1985
“On the New Kind of Rays”
Eine Neue Art Von Strahlen
Wurzburg Physico-Medical Society

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Roentgen tried another experiment in which he conviced his wife to place her hand on a _____________ loaded with a ___________ upon which directed the ___________ from the tupe for approximately ____________.

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Cassette
Photographic plate
X-rays
15 minutes

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Roentgen recived the first ________ in Physics in ______ in ________.

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Nobel Prize
1901
Stockholm

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Roentgen became a member of the ______________

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Physical Society of Stockholm

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The ___________ asked Roentgen to take the chair of physics and become the director of the Physical Science Institute at ____________

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Bavarian government
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany

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The date Bertha died in her 80th year due to a serious kidney disease

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October 31, 1919

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In early ______, Roentgen was diagnosed with _________

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1923
Terminal colon cancer

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On _________ Roentgen passed awat and was cremated ______ days later

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February 10, 1923
Three

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Roentgen willed some of the equipment he ised to the famous _________ in Munich

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Deutsches Museum

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___________ was not studied back then so the couole died fue to severe effects of _________ to their body

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Radiobiology
Radiation

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Attempted to ecplain the nature of rays to the citizens in the United States
Thomas Alva Edison
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What happenee after the news of x-rays spread rapidly throughout the world
Jokes and cartoons were printed as well as ludicrous advertisemenrs appearing in newspapers thag capitalizes on the use of x-rays for profit
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what country passed a law against opera glasses with x-ray vision?
England
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some wealthy people purchased ______ for their homes to entertain guests by imaging their __________ with the _________
x-ray units skeletons fluoroscope
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What did department stores and fairs start offering after the news on x-rays spread?
bone portraits
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- took notice and questioned th3 effects of x-rays - complained that his eyes were sore and red after working with a fluorescent tube
Thomas Edison
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- also called flourescent screen - instrument consisting of a sureface containing chemicals called phosphors that glow when struck by x-rays or gamma rays - used to transform images made up of invisible radiation to visible light
Fluoroscope
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What happened when reports began to emerge in both Europe and United states on tge effect of x-rays?
Serious efforts were made to protect those who worked with x-rays and those who would be exposed to them
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It is thought that the first known radiograph in the United statea was made on __________ by ____________, a professor at ____________
January 2, 1896 Michael Idvorsky Pupin Columbia University
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_____________'s production of a __________ was though to have occured approximately ____________ after Roentgen discovered x-rays
Michael Idvorsky Pupin Radiograph 2 weeks
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- started his experiments with the roentgen rays - performed a large number of expermiments and discovered tge use of calcium tungstate
Thomas edison
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Fluorescent materials for radiologic imaging, intensifying screen that produce glow
Calcium Tungstate (CaWo)
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Edison also became interested in trying to develop a tube on which energy could be transformed into light rather than x-rays but stopped all his research in __________, which invovled the extensive use of radiation after one of his assistants, ___________, sufdered severe radiation damage
Fluroscopy Clarence Madison Dally
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Advance experimentation of roentgen rays resulted in the discovery of __________, the property of certain elements to emit rays or subatomic particles spontaneously from matter
Radioactivity
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Three of the most prominent people credited with the discovery of radioactivty who were jointly awarded the nobel prize for physics in 1903
Pierre Curie Marie Curie Henri Becquerel
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Spontaneous radiation activity
Radioactivity
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Father of Radioactivity
Henri Becquerel
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Noticed that radiym killed diseased cells , which was the fiest suggestion of the medical utility of radioactivity
Pierre Curie
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What year did Marie Curie receive a Nobel Prize for her work in cancer? What was the title of her work?
1911 Radium kills disease cells (cancer)
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- refined the knowledge of radioactivity and purified radium metal - received a noble prize for her work in cancer: Radium kills disease cells (cancer) in 1911 - became acquainted with albert Einstein - halted research due to WW1 - developed approximately 20 mobile radiographic units and 200 installations for the army - trained French soldiers and gave x-ray classes to American soldiers
Marie Curie
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The US army established the _____________ at _____________ in _________.
Army School of Roentgenology University of Tennessee at Memphis 1942
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The army continued to train ______ personnel at _________ in Memphis and trained more than _______
X-ray Joh Gaston Hospital 900 enlisted technicians
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The branch of radiology using radioactive materials for medical diagnosis and treatment
Nuclear Radiology
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Year of discovery of Nuclear Medicine
1896
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year of nuclear medicine Tracers and therapeutics
1922-today
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year of nuclear medicine instrumentation development
1947-today
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year of nuclear medicine clinical application
1972-today
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year artificial radioactivity was discovered
1934
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Who invented the cyclotron and when?
Ernest Lawrence 1932
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what is the chamber that made it possible to accelerate particles to high speeds for use as projectiles
cyclotron
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who made a significant breakthrough when he induced a successful chain reaction in a uranium pile at the University of Chicago in 1942?
Enrico Fermi
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when and where were atomic devices first detonated experimentally?
in 1945 at White Sands, New Mexico.
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when were atomic devices introduced as bombs? Where were they dropped?
1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
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man-made fibers with the unique characteristic of allowing light to curve
fiber optics
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capable of resolving structures smaller than the human eye can see
films
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Improvements in ______ and _________ have made them more durable and have provided a tighter closure that allows better screen-film contact
cassettes film holders
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are five to six times those of previous screens, making it possible to decrease exposure factors
intensifying screen speeds
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routinely produce radiographs in 90 seconds; 60- and 45 second machines are also available
Film processors
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is applied in most of the imaging performed in radiology today. This includes diagnostic ultrasonography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance and digital fluoroscopy, and radiography.
Digital imaging
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when and who started production of radionuclides for medicine related use?
in 1946 by oak ridge national laboratory

Introduction to Radiologic Sciences (7 decks)

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