Notebook: Fluoroscopy Historical Timeline

Name: Laura Ramirez

Date Occurrence
November 8, 1895 -Discovery of x-ray, he placed his hand
between the tube and a screen and saw his
fingers move
1896 -Several other contributors, Salvioni of Italy,
McGie of Princeton, and Thomas Edison.

1909 Thoracic fluoroscopy using handheld

fluorescent screen. No radiation protection is
used, as the dangers of X-rays were not yet
recognized.
1919 To prevent this, red adaption goggles were
developed by Wilhelm Rontgen, so that the
radiologist can function normally during the
procedure.
1937 -Irving Langmuir patented the image
Intensifier
1940s -A technician, as they were called in early
years, using fluoro to image a female patient.
1948 -J.W. Coltman improved upon the design so
that the image brightness increased 1000
times.
1950s -This was a shoe-fitting device.
Viewed from above by the salesman and the
parents, while the person trying on the shoes
stood on the x-ray source.
1950s and 1952 -Medical 1950s fluoroscope.
-The doctor looked into the screen directly in
a darkened room. Photo taken 1952.
1953 -Westinghouse company manufactured the
first commercial use Image Intensifier
Notebook: Fluoroscopy Historical Timeline
Name: Laura Ramirez
In a narrative, list and describe the terminology of basic visual physiology and determine its
importance in radiology image illumination.

Photopic vision is daylight vision: The current way that fluoroscopy is seen.
Scotopic vision is night time vision: The darkened room or special goggles helped this vision.
Dark adapt means activating the rods in the periphery of the retina.
The cones are located within the Fovea centralis, the rods are found in the periphery of the
retina layer. The rods and cones are photoreceptors. Before the development of image
intensifiers in fluoroscopy, the radiologist had to dark adapt their vision to see the images.
The images in early equipment produced images that were very dim.
When pertaining to monitor viewing the unit of measurement of any luminescence.