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5 Facts: X-ray
In 1895, German physics professor Wilhelm Röntgen stumbled on X-rays while experimenting with Lenard and Crookes tubes and began studying them. Since Röntgen’s discovery that X-rays can identify bone structures, X-rays have been used for medical imaging. The first use of X-rays under clinical conditions was by John Hall-Edwards in Birmingham, England 1896, when he radiographed a needle stuck in the hand of an associate.

Up until 2010, 5 billion medical imaging studies have been conducted worldwide, from Radiographs, CT, Fluoroscopy to Radiotheraphy.

Here are some five x-ray facts that you may not have known, here in Cincinnati Children’s Radiology.