ABSTRACT
Medical imaging has completely changed the way clinicians practice medicine. It provides them with a relatively noninvasive method to diagnose a wide variety of disease. Innovation in medical imaging has been proceeding at an extraordinary pace in the last 100+ years since Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays in 1895 and was later awarded the rst Nobel Prize in Physics. is seemingly simple discovery, ionizing radiation, spawned the entire eld of diagnostic radiology. In the intervening years since Röntgen’s discoveries, others have discovered many ways to noninvasively measure processes occurring inside a living subject, including the use of magnetic elds, and light. However, the largest bulk of diagnostic radiology is still performed using ionizing radiation, of which x-rays are a subset, making it the workhorse of modern diagnostic radiology.
