Development Year: 1895 Inventor: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Description: X-ray machines are used in health care for visualizing bone structures, during surgeries (especially orthopedic) to assist surgeons in reattaching broken bones with screws or structural plates, assisting cardiologists in locating blocked arteries and guiding stent placements or performing angioplasties and for other dense tissues such as …
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Development Year: 1971 Inventor: Raymond Vahan Damadian Description: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves to generate images of the organs in the body. The …