The Trail of Light: The Medical Museum: University of Iowa Health Care: A Century of Medical Imaging

The Trail of Invisible Light:
A Century of Medical Imaging

Duration of Exhibit: December 1992 - December 1993

Introduction A short history of the X-ray.	Iowa X-ray Experiment View some of the first X-ray images.	Discovery of the X-ray Find out who discovered the X-ray.
Early Military Radiology Used on the battlefield in 1897 for the first time! Egyptian Mummy It's no ordinary mummy. Ultrasound A way to see organs without a scalpel. Computed Tomography Images of the brain and chest. Positron Emission Tomography Enables us to view the function of an organ, not its anotomy.		X-ray Martyrs Early radiologists who met their doom. Expanding Knowledge Find out the multiple uses of X-ray technology. Mammography Take a look at some breast cancer statistics. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Learn how MRI uses magnets. The New Imaging Technology More X-ray technology. Three-D Reconstruction Used in planning tumor removal, facial reconstruction and radiation treatment.

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