X-ray technology considered one of the breakthroughs that helped the medical community meet their goals of detecting diseases and broken bone in human body. Did you know that x-ray technology discovered by accident? In 1895, a German physicist named Wilhelm Roentgen made the discovery while experimenting with electron beams in a gas discharge tube.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
X-ray technology lets doctors see straight through human tissue to examine broken bones, cavities and swallowed objects with extraordinary ease. Modified X-ray procedures can be used to examine softer tissue, such as the lungs, blood vessels or the intestines.
See what a physician saw in one of his patient’s intestine.
Here, an X-ray shows the abdomen of a patient that has swallowed two forks, a ballpoint pen and a toothbrush. The items are located in the intestine.
Via - Telegraph
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