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Essay / Medical Technology: Imaging - 550
Technology has greatly influenced many categories of medicines. Robots, monitors, disease control, computers and images. Imaging is also known as radiology, which actually uses radiation waves from an instrument bouncing off the subject to a computer, resulting in images of that particular object. Imaging works like a radio on a network, hence its name radiology. Here, this article uses a timeline to give information about many machines designed in medicine, such as: X-rays, gamma cameras, ultrasounds and cat scanners of the past, present and future. The images have been dated to 1895 by a German scientist named Wilhelm Roentgen. He had come up with the common term known as X-rays, which allows the structure of the human body to be visualized. 47 years later, in 1942, ultrasound was discovered by Austrian physician Karl Theodore Dussik. However, he was not the one who invented it, the inventor was a Scottish professor named Ian Donald. Ultrasound is the imaging of visual observation of the interior of the body (organs, uterus, bodily functions). After several years of this discovery, Gamma cam...