Brain, Vol. 123, No. 6, 1281-1282,
June 2000
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NEUROIMAGING. Volumes 1 and 2.
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Radiology Directorate, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Wilhelm Roentgen's description of `A New Kind of Rays' was published in December 1895, his discovery of X-rays having been made on November 8 that year. By November 1896, Harvey Cushing, the pioneering American neurosurgeon, had used X-rays to aid him in the diagnosis of neurological disease by demonstrating the presence of a bullet lodged in the C6 vertebral body of one of his patients. The rest, as they say, is history.
The field of neuroimaging in all its guises has grown exponentially since those early days, slowly at first through the era of precision skull radiographs performed on dedicated skull tables to air encephalography, contrast myelography and early angiography right up to the present day when not only are we able to demonstrate neuroanatomy in exquisite detail but have various tools with which to image the functioning brain.
The need for surgeons to visualize brain structure as an aid
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