General Radiography

History
Discovered by accident in 1885 by German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen.  The x-ray (which he named after the scientific symbol X for the unknown) he could produce a picture of his wife’s hand showing the bones through the skin.  In 1901 Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize for physics.

X-ray imaging has many practical uses in modern medicine.  X-rays are commonly seen as essential in the assessment of broken bones and it is also indispensable in the evaluation of numerous other medical conditions.