radiology: Quick Facts

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German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Marie Curie sits at the wheel of a Renault car converted into a mobile radiological unit, wearing a dark coat, with the vehicle parked beside a brick wall, circa 1914.

Allan MacLeod Cormack

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brain scanning radiation therapy diagnostic radiology radionuclide imaging radiotracer method left ventriculography radioactive scanning cineradiography renogram magnetic resonance imaging dentistry epidemiology audiology complementary and alternative medicine sexology nanomedicine pharmacy sports medicine phytotherapy Darwinian medicine

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Ernest Amory Codman

American surgeon

Zerhouni, Elias

Elias Zerhouni

American radiologist