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Discovery of X-ray - _____ (Germany).

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1895)
November 8, 1895 Friday

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1st X-ray Cancer Treatment of the Breast (Chicago).

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Emil Grubbe (1896)

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Discovery of Natural Radioactivity from Uranium (Paris).

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Henri Antoine Becquerel (1896)

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Treatment of Nevus (skin cancer) with X-ray (Austria).

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Leopold Freund (1896)

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Invented Fluoroscopy (USA).

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Thomas Alva Edison (1896)

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Discovered and announced the finding of negatively charged particles, the ELECTRON on _____.

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Joseph John Thomson (1897)
April 30 1897

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Found 2 types of Radiation from Uranium, the Alpha and Beta Rays.

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Ernest Rutherford (1897)

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Discovered Radium and Polonium on _____ (Paris).

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Marie Curie & Pierre Curie (1898)
April 12 1898

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Treatment of Cutaneous Lupus with Radium.

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Henri Danlos (1901)

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Treated the 1st Skin Cancer cured by X-ray, a Basal Cell Epithelioma.

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Thor Stenbeck (1899)

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Discovered Gamma Rays from Radium.

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Paul Villard (1900)

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1st Nobel Prize in Physics awardee for the discovery of X-ray.

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1901)

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Awardees of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of radioactivity and their works in radioactivity.

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Henri Antoine Becquerel, Marie Curie & Pierre Curie (1903)

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Cure of Cervical Cancer with Radium sources.

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Robert Abbe (1905)

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Formulation of the 1st Law of cell Radiosensitivity (Paris).

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Jean Bergonie & Louis Trebondeau (1906)

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Inventors of a device that detect and measure other types of radiation. Geiger-Muller Counter (Germany)

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Hans Geiger & Walther Muller (1906)

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Standardized the weight quantities of Radium Salt.

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Marie Curie (1911)

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Developed the 1st X-ray Tube (USA).

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William Coolidge (1913)

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STOCKHOLM System of Brachytherapy Dosimetry (Sweden).

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Rolf Sievert & J. Heyman (1917)

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Discovered PROTON in Atom

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Ernest Rutherford (1917)

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Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer

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Claudius Ragaud & Antoine Lacassagne (1919)

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Introduced DOSE FRACTIONATION

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Claudius Regaud (1922)

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Cure of Laryngeal Cancer with FRACTIONATED Radiotherapy

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Henri Coutard (1922)

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Originator of particle accelerator concepts including RF Linear Accelerator and Betatron Accelerator (Norway).

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Rolf Wideroe (1928)

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Invented the Cyclotron (USA).
Ernest O. Lawrence (1930)
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QUIMBY System of Dosimetry
Edith Quimby & G. Failla (1930)
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Discovered Neutrons (UK).
Sir James Chadwick (1932)
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Oxygen effect in Radiotherapy
H. Crabtree & W. Cramer (1933)
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Inventor of Van de Graaff Generator (a particle accelerator capable of producing 13 million volts or 13 Mega volts (USA).
Robert Van de Graff (1933)
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Discovered and produced Artificial Radioactivity by bombarding aluminum (AI) with alpha particles.
Frederick Joloit & Irene Curie Joloit (1934)
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MANCHESTER System of Dosimetry for Interstitial Brachytherapy.
R. Patterson & H. Parker (1934)
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Developed Betatron to accelerate electrons (Germany).
Max Steenbeck (1935)
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TECHNETIUM - 1st artificially produced element by a Cyclotron
Carlo Perrier & Emilio Segre (1937)
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Accepted ROENTGEN as international dosage unit for X-rays and Gamma Radiation.
5th International Congress of Radiology (1937)
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Remote controlled after loading Brachytherapy
Rolf M. Sievert (1937)
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First to used NEUTRON beam from Cyclotron for Cancer treatment
R. Stone & Ernest O. Lawrence (1938)
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200 kV orthovoltage X-ray tube were available for deep X-ray.
1938
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Constructed BETATRON, electron accelerator (20 MeV - 300 MeV)
Donald Kerst (1940)
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Used Radioiodine (Iodine 131) for Thyroid cancer (USA).
Saul Hertz (1941)
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Developed MICROTRON, an electron accelerator.
Vladimir Veksler (1944)
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Proposed an application of ions of Radiotherapy (USA).
Robert Wilson (1946)
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Built the 1st Cobalt 60 Telegraphy unit that was installed in Saskatoon, Ontario and Canada.
Harold E. Johns (1951)
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FLETCHER System of Gynecologic Brachytherapy.
Gilbert Fletcher (1948)
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Invented Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (Sweden).
Lars Lekssel (1951)
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1st treatment with Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.
W. H. Sweet (1951)
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1st Electron Linear Accelerator designed for radiotherapy was installed in Hammersmith Hospital, London, England.
Metropolitan-Vickers (Fry, Ginzton, Chodorow) (1952)
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Adopted the RAD as a unit of absorbed dose of any Ionizing Radiation.
7th International Congress of Radiology (1953)
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1st Patient treated with PROTON therapy (Berkeley, USA).
E. Lawrence & R. Wilson (1953)
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Used of Cesium 137 for Teletherapy unit.
F. Comas & M. Brucer (1955)
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Medical Linear Accelerator was installed (Stanford, California).
Henry S. Kaplan & Edward Ginzton (1956)
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Computational methods applied to implant dosimetry.
R. Nelson & M. Merck (1957)
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Linear Quadratic parameters from fractionation experiment.
J. Fowler & B. Douglas (1960)
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Developed Multi-leaf collimator (MLC).
Shinji Takahashi (1965)
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Oscillating source system for brachytherapy.
U. Henschke (1965)
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Used Cobalt 60 source for high dose rate brachytherapy.
Mark Wakabayashi (1965)
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PARIS System of brachytherapy dosimetry.
B. Pierquin (1966)
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Invented X-ray Computed Tomography and 1st CT Scanner.
Geoffrey Hounsfield (1971)
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Standardization of the clinical use of electron beams.
N. Duv Tapley (1976)
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Invented Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan.
Edward J. Hoffmman (1978)
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Used fast Neutron Therapy.
M. Catterall & D. Bewley (1979)
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1st Commercial Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) device.
P. Bottomley (1980)
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Formulated inverse planning.
A. Brahme & A. Cormack (1982)
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Completed hospital-based PROTON facility
Loma Linda University (1990)
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Invented Helical Tomotherapy.
T. R. Mackie (1993)
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Radiotherapy Facility using CARBON ION beam.
N I R S - Chiba, Japan (1994)
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Image Guided Radiotherapy (IMRT).
NOMOS PEACOCK (1994)
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Multi-leaf Collimator adapted for IMRT.
L. Brewster (1996)
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Marketing of Cobalt 60 microsource system for HDR Brachytherapy.
ECKERT and ZIEGLER BEBIG (Gemany) (2002)
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Robotic Radiotherapy
J. R. Adler (1999)
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MRI-LINAC.
J. Dempsey (2004)
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Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)
A. L. Boyer (2001)
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GEC-ESTRO recommendations for image based for cervical brachytherapy
C. Haie-Meder & R. Potter (2005)
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Targeted Therapy and radiotherapy
J. A. Bonner et al (2006)

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