ABSTRACT
The 1970s can be seen as a golden decade and modern radiology is giving an increasing understanding of disease processes and opportunities for novel interventions. The department provided both electrical and radiological services. The radiological services included plain film radiography, radiotherapy, foreign body localization, and stereoscopic radiography. William J. Morton had immediately seen that the radiological examination of the body, either living or dead, could produce more information than could be found in either the operating theatre or the pathology department. The development of interventional radiology depended on a number of factors. These include modern image intensification so that radiologists were no longer working in the dark, modern contrast media that were neither non-toxic nor painful, and the technology to produce wires, catheters and balloons. The changes in computing technology and its influence on radiology has been a rapid revolution.
