The first X-ray was taken on this day

The first tomographic image in the history of mankind was taken on August 25, 1973. Today, this research method is widely used throughout the world and is considered one of the best in diagnosing diseases.

It was at the end of the 70s that theory began to converge with practice, and soon the first scanners, pictures appeared. Already in the next decade, instead of five minutes, it took five seconds to take a picture, and the image quality became excellent.

Further, the latest devices began to appear in clinics and hospitals in Japan and the United States, and magnetic resonance imaging emerged as a separate area of ​​medicine.